Strengthening Nepal's Female Community Health Volunteer network: A qualitative study of experiences at two years

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Schwarz, Dan ^a,b,c   Sharma, Ranju ^a,d   Bashyal, Chhitij ^a   Schwarz, Ryan ^a,b,c   Baruwal, Ashma ^a   Karelas, Gregory ^a   Basnet, Bibhusan ^a   Khadka, Nirajan ^a   Brady, Jesse ^a,e   Silver, Zach ^a   Mukherjee, Joia ^b,f,g   Andrews, Jason ^a,h   Maru, Duncan Smith Rohrberg ^a,b,c  

^a Bayalpata Hospital   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MEDIC MOBILE   (United States)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countr; Health services; International hlth; MCH; Public health policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928786627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-473     Document Type: Article

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