Longitudinal study of rural health workforce in five counties in China: Research design and baseline description

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Huiwen ^a   Zhang, Weijun ^a   Zhang, Xiulan ^a   Qu, Zhiyong ^a   Wang, Xiaohua ^a   Sa, Zhihong ^a   Li, Yafang ^a   Zhao, Shuliang ^a   Qi, Xuan ^a   Tian, Donghua ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Barefoot doctors; China; Human resources for health; Rural health workforce; Village doctors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876964056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-11-17     Document Type: Article

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