Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kahabuka, Catherine ^a   Moland, Karen Marie ^a,b   Kvåle, Gunnar ^a   Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TANZANIA;

CAREGIVERS; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84862162193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-158     Document Type: Article

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