PLoS Medicine (Nov 2010)

Defining research to improve health systems.

  • Jan H F Remme,
  • Taghreed Adam,
  • Francisco Becerra-Posada,
  • Catherine D'Arcangues,
  • Michael Devlin,
  • Charles Gardner,
  • Abdul Ghaffar,
  • Joachim Hombach,
  • Jane F K Kengeya,
  • Anthony Mbewu,
  • Michael T Mbizvo,
  • Zafar Mirza,
  • Tikki Pang,
  • Robert G Ridley,
  • Fabio Zicker,
  • Robert F Terry

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001000
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 11
p. e1001000

Abstract

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Robert Terry and colleagues present working definitions of operational research, implementation research, and health systems research within the context of research to strengthen health systems.