Task sharing within a managed clinical network to improve child health in Malawi
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Task sharing within a managed clinical network to improve child health in Malawi
BACKGROUND Eighty per cent of Malawi's 8 million children live in rural areas, and there is an extensive tiered health system infrastructure from village health clinics to district hospitals which refers patients to one of the four central hospitals. The clinics and district hospitals are staffed by nurses, non-physician clinicians and recently qualified doctors. There are 16 paediatric special...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Resources for Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1478-4491
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-015-0053-z