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Fig. 1 | Health Research Policy and Systems

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From: Contributions of information and communications technology to future health systems and Universal Health Coverage: application of Japan’s experiences

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Using ICTs to accelerate health system strengthening. To best conceptualise the ICTs as a foundation for the ‘health information’ building block in the WHO’s health system framework [4], the framework was modified to have ICTs in the centre with all other building blocks around it. The five key functions that ICTs could contribute in this context were based on the recent literatures [5, 6]

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