The Applications of Implementation Science in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Research and Practice.
BACKGROUND: Delivery of high quality, at-scale, and sustained services is a major challenge in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector, made more challenging by a dearth of evidence-based models for adaption across contexts in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVE: We aim to describe...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 129; no. 6; pp. 065002-1 - 65012 |
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Jun2021
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