TY - JOUR
T1 - The Community Health Worker
T2 - Forty years of experience of an integrated primary rural health care system in Brazil
AU - Rice-Marquez, N.
AU - Baker, T. D.
AU - Fischer, C.
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - This article presents one aspect of a highly successful, but surprisingly little known, rural health program in Brazil. Information on the selection, training, supervision, productivity, coverage, costs, and quality of care of their Visitadoras, a type of Community Health Worker, should be of utility to rural health planners and managers in other countries.
AB - This article presents one aspect of a highly successful, but surprisingly little known, rural health program in Brazil. Information on the selection, training, supervision, productivity, coverage, costs, and quality of care of their Visitadoras, a type of Community Health Worker, should be of utility to rural health planners and managers in other countries.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1988.tb00304.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1988.tb00304.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0023715732
SN - 0890-765X
VL - 4
SP - 87
EP - 100
JO - Journal of Rural Health
JF - Journal of Rural Health
IS - 1
ER -