Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Social Science Matters
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- 23 August 2011
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 8 (8), e1001079
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001079
Abstract
In the second in a series of articles addressing the current challenges and opportunities for the development of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR), Lucy Gilson and colleagues argue the importance of insights from the social sciences.Keywords
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