Frontline health workers as brokers: Provider perceptions, experiences and mitigating strategies to improve access to essential medicines in South Africa

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Magadzire, Bvudzai Priscilla ^a   Budden, Ashwin ^b   Ward, Kim ^a   Jeffery, Roger ^c   Sanders, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access to medicines; Broker; Depression; Diabetes; Empathy; Health services; HIV; Provider perceptions; South Africa; TB

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL DRUG;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHARMACY; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUGS, ESSENTIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHARMACIES; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920847994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0520-6     Document Type: Article

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