The GAVI Alliance and the ‘Gates approach’ to health system strengthening

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 865-879

  Storeng, Katerini T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ethnography; global health initiatives; health systems; history; policy

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODS; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS;

EID: 85027937175     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.940362     Document Type: Article

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