Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana

Global Health Science and Practice

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-133

  Awoonor Williams, John Koku ^a   Sory, Elias Kavinah ^a   Nyonator, Frank K ^a   Phillips, James F ^b   Wang, Chen ^b   Schmitt, Margaret L ^b  

^a GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^b Ghana Health Service ^*  (United States)

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EID: 85015277194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2169575X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00012     Document Type: Article

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