Community-based rehabilitation programme as a model for task-shifting

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 1997-2005

  Dawad, Suraya ^a   Jobson, Geoff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b ANOVA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

community based rehabilitation; HIV AIDS; South Africa; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSUMER; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REHABILITATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; VOLUNTARY WORKER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REHABILITATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; VOLUNTARY WORKERS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 80053541542     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2011.553710     Document Type: Article

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