Context counts: Training health workers in and for rural and remote areas;De l'importance du contexte: La formation de professionnels de la santé dans et pour les zones rurales et isolées

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 777-782

  Strasser, Roger ^a   Neusy, Andre Jacques ^b  

^a NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Canada)

^b Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SKILLED LABOR; TRAINING;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; RURAL AREA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; ONTARIO; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PHILIPPINES; PHYSICIANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77957839285     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.072462     Document Type: Article

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