Applying DOTS principles for operational research capacity building [Editorial]
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Research to policy and practice change: is capacity building in operational research delivering the goods?
OBJECTIVES Between 2009 and 2012, eight operational research capacity building courses were completed in Paris (3), Luxembourg (1), India (1), Nepal (1), Kenya (1) and Fiji (1). Courses had strict milestones that were subsequently adopted by the Structured Operational Research and Training InitiaTive (SORT IT) of the World Health Organization. We report on the numbers of enrolled participants w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Action
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2220-8372,2220-8372
DOI: 10.5588/pha.12.0075