Female health volunteers of Nepal: the backbone of health care

The Lancet

Volumn 393, Issue 10171, 2019, Pages e19-e20

  Kandel, Nirmal ^a   Lamichhane, Jaya ^b  

^a Nepal Army Hospital   (Nepal)

^b Versoix 1290 ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY PROGRAM; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LETTER; NEPAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION; SPIRITUAL HEALING; VOLUNTEER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NEPAL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 85061075880     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30207-7     Document Type: Letter

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