Politics and practices of global health: Critical ethnographies of health systems
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Politics and practices of global health: Critical ethnographies of health systems
Over the past decade, growing recognition that weak health systems threaten global health progress has galvanised renewed global and national commitment to strengthening health systems (Hafner & Shiffman, 2012). Global health leaders from the World Health Organization to the GAVI Alliance, national governments and donors today endorse the goal of health system strengthening (HSS), though there ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Public Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1744-1692,1744-1706
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.941901