Traditional medicine use and healthworker training in a refugee setting at the Thai-Burma border

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 76-99

  Bodeker, Gerard ^a,b,c   Neumann, Cora ^a,c   Lall, Priya ^d   Oo, Zaw Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Global Initiative for Traditional Systems GIFTS of Health   (United Kingdom)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH WORKER; MEDICINE; REFUGEE; TRAINING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; WORLD;

EID: 26844578066     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: 14716925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/18.1.76     Document Type: Article

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