Barriers to and facilitators of the provision of a youth-friendly health services programme in rural South Africa

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Geary, Rebecca Sally ^a,b   Gómez Olivé, Francesc Xavier ^c,e   Kahn, Kathleen ^c,d,e   Tollman, Stephen ^c,d,e   Norris, Shane Anthony ^f  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Adolescent Health Services; Reproductive Health Services; Rural Health Services; South Africa; Youth; Youth friendly

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANPOWER; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NURSES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903608764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-259     Document Type: Article

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