Building Cross-Country Networks for Laboratory Capacity and Improvement

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 119-130

  Schneidman, Miriam ^a   Matu, Martin ^b   Nkengasong, John ^c   Githui, Willie ^d   Kalyesubula Kibuuka, Simeon ^e   Silva, Kelly Araujo ^f  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b East   (Tanzania)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^e Uganda National Health Research Organization   (Uganda)

^f Lacliv Laboratorio de Analises Clinicas de Valenca   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disease outbreak response; Epidemiologic surveillance; Global health security; Laboratory networks

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CROSS COUNTRY NETWORK; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; KENYA; LABORATORY; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RWANDA; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 85044041938     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: 15579832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2017.10.009     Document Type: Review

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