How a technical agency helped scale up a community health worker program: An exploratory study in Chhattisgarh State, India

Health Systems and Reform

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 123-134

  Nambiar, Devaki ^a   Sheikh, Kabir ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Health policy and systems research; India; Scaling up; Universal health coverage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029450237     PISSN: 23288604     EISSN: 23288620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23288604.2016.1148802     Document Type: Article

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