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...
Main Author: | Ahmed, Syed Masud |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BRAC University
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10361/415 |
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