The astronomy of Africa's health systems literature during the mdg era: Where are the systems clusters?

Global Health Science and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 482-502

  Phillips, James F ^a   Sheff, Mallory ^a   Boyer, Christopher B ^a  

^a Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BIBLIOMETRICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS;

EID: 85021388981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2169575X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00034     Document Type: Review

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