What Do District Health Managers in Ghana Use Their Working Time for? A Case Study of Three Districts.

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Published in PLoS One on June 11, 2015

Authors

Marc Bonenberger1, Moses Aikins2, Patricia Akweongo2, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch1, Kaspar Wyss1

Author Affiliations

1: Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
2: School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.

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