Primary care training for patent medicine vendors in rural Nigeria

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 1477-1484

  Oshiname, Frederick O ^a   Brieger, William R ^b  

^a National Drug Law Enforcement Agency   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

patent medicine vendors; primary health care training

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE KNOWLEDGE; PATENT MEDICINE VENDORS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TRAINING;

NIGERIA;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DIARRHEA; DRUG MARKETING; HUMAN; LICENCE; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; NIGERIA; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRAINING; WORM INFECTION;

ADULT; COMMERCE; CURRICULUM; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NIGERIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 0026615143     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90050-Z     Document Type: Article

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