Evidence-Based Priority Setting for Health Care and Research: Tools to Support Policy in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Africa
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1 Global Health Academy and Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2 Croatian Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Soltanska, Split, Croatia, 3 Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 4 Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 5 Committee on Population, United States National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 6 UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America
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