A case study of outsourced primary healthcare services in Sindh, Pakistan: Is this a real reform?

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tanzil, Sana ^a   Zahidie, Aysha ^a   Ahsan, Adeel ^a   Kazi, Ambreen ^a   Shaikh, Babar Tasneem ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Basic health units; Contracting; Pakistan; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAKISTAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; OUTSOURCED SERVICES; PAKISTAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84902898737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-277     Document Type: Article

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