Quality of Health Assistants in Primary Health Centres in Rural Maharashtra, India.
Introduction: Health assistants are important functionaries of the primary health care system in India. Their role is supervision of field-based services among other things. A quality assurance mechanism for these health assistants is lacking. The present study was undertaken with the objectives of...
| Publicado en: | Health Services Insights no. 6; pp. 9 - 14 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2013
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