High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2018, Pages e1196-e1252

  Kruk, Margaret E ^a   Gage, Anna D ^a   Arsenault, Catherine ^a   Jordan, Keely ^b   Leslie, Hannah H ^a   Roder DeWan, Sanam ^a   Adeyi, Olusoji ^c   Barker, Pierre ^d   Daelmans, Bernadette ^e   Doubova, Svetlana V ^f   English, Mike ^g   Elorrio, Ezequiel García ^h   Guanais, Frederico ⁱ   Gureje, Oye ^j   Hirschhorn, Lisa R ^k   Jiang, Lixin ^l   Kelley, Edward ^e   Lemango, Ephrem Tekle ^m   Liljestrand, Jerker ⁿ   Malata, Address ^o   Marchant, Tanya ^p   Matsoso, Malebona Precious ^q   Meara, John G ^r   Mohanan, Manoj ^s   Ndiaye, Youssoupha ^t   Norheim, Ole F ^u   Reddy, K Srinath ^v   Rowe, Alexander K ^w   Salomon, Joshua A ^x   Thapa, Gagan ^y   Twum Danso, Nana A Y ^z   Pate, Muhammad ^aa   more..

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^g KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^h INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

ⁱ INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^k NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Department of Pathology National Center for Cardiovascular Disease   (China)

^m FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

ⁿ BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^o MALAWI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Malawi)

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

^q NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (South Africa)

^r HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^s DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t Senegal Ministry of Health   (Senegal)

^u UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^v PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

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

^x STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^y Legislature Parliament Secretariat   (Nepal)

^z MAZA   (Ghana)

^aa Big Win Philanthropy   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHYXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDBIRTH; DISEASE BURDEN; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2 POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DEATH; NUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MOTIVATION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOALS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85054714527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30386-3     Document Type: Review

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