Managing health systems in developing areas
Subtitle: experiences from Afghanistan
By: edited by Ronald W. O'Connor.
Contributors: O'Connor, Ronald W.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Rural health services -- Afghanistan.; Medical assistance, American -- Afghanistan.; Community health services -- Developing countries.; Health services -- Organization and administration -- Afghanistan.; Rural health -- Afghanistan.; Developing countries.
Description: This book documents successes and failures in establishing basic health centers and training village health workers and midwives to deliver services in Afghanistan throughout the 1970s. Nine experts on the development of community-based health systems in rural Afghanistan share what they learned in working with the Ministry of Health in Kabul to implement a national rural health system.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 301-304.
Includes index.