The health care workforce for epilepsy in resource-poor settings: What will work? What is realistic?

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1642-1643

  Birbeck, Gretchen L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EPILEPSY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STAFF TRAINING;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; EMPLOYMENT; EPILEPSY; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 51249102350     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01580_3.x     Document Type: Note

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