Rethinking global health research: towards integrative expertise
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Rethinking global health research: towards integrative expertise
The Bamako Call for Action on Research for Health stresses the importance of inter-disciplinary, inter-ministerial and inter-sectoral working. This challenges much of our current research and postgraduate research training in health, which mostly seeks to produce narrowly focused content specialists. We now need to compliment this type of research and research training, by offering alternative ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Globalization and Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1744-8603
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-5-6