Health research priorities and gaps in South Asia

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 357, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Swaminathan, Soumya ^a,b   Qureshi, Huma ^c   Jahan, Mahmood Uz ^d   Baskota, Dharma K ^e   De Alwis, Sunil ^f   Dandona, Lalit ^g,h  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Government of India ^*  (India)

^c Pakistan Medical and Research Council   (Pakistan)

^d Bangladesh Medical Research Council   (Bangladesh)

^e Nepal Medical Association   (Nepal)

^f MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FUNDING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH PRIORITY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOUTH ASIA; ASIA; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ASIA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS;

EID: 85017526938     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j1510     Document Type: Article

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