Assessing capacity for health policy and systems research in low and middle income countries*

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Published in Health Res Policy Syst on January 13, 2003

Authors

Miguel A Gonzalez Block1, Anne Mills

Author Affiliations

1: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organisation, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. blockm@who.ch

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