The experience of community health workers training in Iran: A qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Javanparast, Sara ^a   Baum, Fran ^b   Labonte, Ronald ^c   Sanders, David ^d   Rajabi, Zohreh ^e   Heidari, Gholamreza ^f  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^e KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f Boushehr University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Primary health care; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SATISFACTION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 84865554542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-291     Document Type: Review

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