Commentary: Managing scaling up: what are the key issues?

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Published in Health Policy Plan on January 06, 2010

Authors

Lucy Gilson1, Helen Schneider

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, 7925, South Africa. Lucy.Gilson@uct.ac.za

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