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Global health research:
what questions to ask?
Margaret E. Kruk, MD, MPH
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
University
WHO's health system building blocks
WHO (2007). Everybody's business: strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes: WHO's framework for 1
action. Geneva, World Health Organization.
Beyond the health system
Global actors
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