'What I've noticed what they need is the stats': Lay HIV counsellors' reports of working in a task-orientated health care system

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 397-406

  Rohleder, P ^a   Swartz, Leslie ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TEAMWORK; WORKPLACE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNSELING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 13244262829     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540120512331314376     Document Type: Article

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