Village doctors: a national telephone survey of Bangladesh’s lay medical practitioners

Village doctors: a national telephone survey of Bangladesh’s lay medical practitioners

Abstract Background Bangladesh outperforms its Least Developed Country (LDC) status on a range of health measures including life expectancy. Its frontline medical practitioners, however, are not formally trained medical professionals, but instead lightly-trained ‘village doctors’ able to prescribe m...

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Main Authors: Olav Muurlink, Nazim Uzzaman, Rhonda J Boorman, Sarah Binte Kibria, Talitha Best, Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-09-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Traditional medical practitioners
Developing Countries
Medicine, traditional
Professional practice
Delivery of health care
Community pharmacy services
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09972-w

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