The community health worker scheme: an Indian experiment
Bose, A.
Practising health for all: 38-48
1983
Document Number: 402147
The paper assesses the achievements and weaknesses of the Community Health Worker Scheme launched by the Indian Government in 1977 as a new means of providing health care services to India's rural masses.
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