Job satisfaction amongst rural medical aides providing emergency oral health care in rural Tanzania

Community Dental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-44

  Ntabaye, M K ^a   Scheutz, F ^a   Poulsen, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross sectional studies; Delivery of health services; Dental health services; Job satisfaction; Oral health; Questionnaires; Rural health services; Tanzania; Toothache

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTAL CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MANPOWER; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DENTAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA;

EID: 0033084846     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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