What health system for nomadic populations?
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In Niger, independent mobile health units intended to meet the needs of nomadic populations have proved ineffectual and excessively costly. Primary health care services should be based on fixed structures with a reasonably wide radius of coverage and sufficient flexibility and mobile capacity to fulfil their obligations to all sectors of the population.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- World health forum
دوره 13 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992