Informal rural healthcare providers in North and South India
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Informal rural healthcare providers in North and South India
Rural households in India rely extensively on informal biomedical providers, who lack valid medical qualifications. Their numbers far exceed those of formal providers. Our study reports on the education, knowledge, practices and relationships of informal providers (IPs) in two very different districts: Tehri Garhwal in Uttarakhand (north) and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh (south). We mapped and inte...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Planning
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0268-1080,1460-2237
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czt050