Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone

This article is a country profile of Sierra Leone describing the state of primary health care and family medicine in early 2019. Family medicine in Sierra Leone faces many challenges but recent changes in the location of the training programme encourage optimism that it may become better established...

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Main Author: Colan Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2019-07-01
Series:African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
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Online Access:https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/2051
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description This article is a country profile of Sierra Leone describing the state of primary health care and family medicine in early 2019. Family medicine in Sierra Leone faces many challenges but recent changes in the location of the training programme encourage optimism that it may become better established within the next few years.
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Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone
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family medicine
postgraduate training
Sierra Leone
title Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone
title_full Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone
title_fullStr Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone
title_full_unstemmed Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone
title_short Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone
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topic family medicine
postgraduate training
Sierra Leone
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