Taking healthcare where the community is: the story of the Shasthya sebikas of BRAC in Bangladesh

Taking healthcare where the community is: the story of the Shasthya sebikas of BRAC in Bangladesh

To mitigate the income-erosion effect of illness and vulnerability of the poor households, BRAC, an indigenous Bangladeshi NGO, integrates Essential Health Care (EHC) activities with its microcredit-based poverty-alleviation interventions. The EHC delivers preventive and basic curative health servic...

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Autor principal:	Ahmed, Syed Masud
Format:	Article
Idioma:	English
Publicat:	BRAC University 2010
Matèries:	Community health workers BRAC Bangladesh
Accés en línia:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/415

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