Where are healthcare providers? Exploring relationships between context and human resources for health Madhya Pradesh province, India

Health Policy

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-47

  De Costa, Ayesha ^a,b   Al Muniri, Abdullah ^a,c   Diwan, Vinod K ^a,b   Eriksson, Bo ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b RD Gardi Medical College   (India)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^d NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Human resources; India; Scheduled castes; Tribes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; INDIA; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION;

FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; POVERTY AREAS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 70349832924     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.03.015     Document Type: Article

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