Lessons from implementation of ecohealth projects in Southern Africa: A principal investigator's perspective

Acta Tropica

Volumn 175, Issue , 2017, Pages 9-19

  Chimbari, Moses John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Communities; Ecohealth; Leadership; Policy; Stakeholder engagement; Transdsciplinarity

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; LEADERSHIP; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

BOTSWANA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEADERSHIP; PLANT LEAF; POSTGRADUATE STUDENT; RUNNING; SCIENTIST; SKILL; SOUTH AFRICA; VISION; WRITING; ZIMBABWE; AFRICA; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH STATUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BOTSWANA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85008701934     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.09.028     Document Type: Article

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