Who are rural China’s village clinicians?

China Agricultural Economic Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 662-676

  Xue, Hao ^a   Shi, Yaojiang ^a   Medina, Alexis ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career choice; Rural China; Village clinicians

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061586379     PISSN: 1756137X     EISSN: 17561388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CAER-12-2015-0181     Document Type: Article

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