The Importance of the Outcome Evaluation in Historical Reviews.

Am J Public Health

Jingjing Li is with the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Yen-Tyng Chen is with the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Davie Zolowere is with the Marie Stopes International, Lilongwe, Malawi. Gunjan Batra is with the Evidence Action-Deworm the World Initiative, New Delhi, India.

Published: July 2019

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