Rural Health Care Access and Policy in Developing Countries

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 395-412

  Strasser, Roger ^a   Kam, Sophia M ^b   Regalado, Sophie M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community engagement; Local training and retention; Primary health care; Rural health workforce; Social accountability

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH DISPARITY; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; POLICY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84982812074     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032315-021507     Document Type: Review

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