In the eye of the beholder: To make global health estimates useful, make them more socially robust

Global Health Action

Volumn 10, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Pisani, Elizabeth ^a   Kok, Maarten ^b,c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Monitoring and evaluation; Political economy; Sustainable development goals; World health organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MONITORING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRUST; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85028938858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v9.32298     Document Type: Article

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