ArticleBMJ global health2017
Square peg in a round hole: re-thinking our approach to evaluating health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries.
Article in BMJ global health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- How to do (or not to do)…using causal loop diagrams for health system research in low and middle-income settings.Health policy and planning · 2022Article
- Taking Systems Thinking to the Global Level: Using the WHO Building Blocks to Describe and Appraise the Global Health System in Relation to COVID-19.Global policy · 2022Article
- Long-term effects of payment for performance on maternal and child health outcomes: evidence from Tanzania.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- Understanding the maternal and child health system response to payment for performance in Tanzania using a causal loop diagram approach.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
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- Priority setting for health system strengthening in low income countries. A qualitative case study illustrating the complexities.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2021Article
- Forty years after Alma-Ata: primary health-care preparedness for chronic diseases in Mozambique, Nepal and Peru.Global health action · 2021Article
- The implementation of the free maternal health policy in rural Northern Ghana: synthesised results and lessons learnt.BMC research notes · 2018Article
- Unpicking the Gordian knot: a systems approach to traumatic brain injury care in low-income and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2018Article
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