Adding value and equity to primary healthcare through partnership working to establish a viable community health workers' programme in Namibia

Critical Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-346

  Low, Anne ^a,b   Ithindi, Taati ^a,b  

^a Public Health   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; NAMIBIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TEAMWORK;

EID: 0344898259     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581590310001615871     Document Type: Article

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