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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Capacity building: for what?

Penelope Hawe

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 11(3) 22 - 24
Published: 2000

Abstract

The words ‘capacity building’ have spread rapidly throughout the health system, almost like a virus. But what exactly does capacity building mean? How did the term originate? What difference will or should capacity building make to the business of running health services?

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB00012

© NSW Department of Health 2000

Committee on Publication Ethics

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