Gender and social geography: Impact on Lady Health Workers Mobility in Pakistan

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mumtaz, Zubia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Family planning; Gender; Lady health worker; Mixed methods; Pakistan; Primary health care services; Reproductive health services; Social geography; Women's mobility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANPOWER; PAKISTAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PAKISTAN; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84867436426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-360     Document Type: Review

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