A Concept Development of the Village Health Worker

Nursing Forum

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 173-182

  Benskin, Linda L L ^a  

^a Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Galveston   (United States)

Author keywords

Community health worker; Concept development; Developing countries; Resource limited environment; Village health worker

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NURSING RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84864599076     PISSN: 00296473     EISSN: 17446198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6198.2012.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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