Inequity in Health Care Delivery in India: The Problem of Rural Medical Practitioners

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作者：

Rashmi Kumar

Vijay Jaiswal

Sandeep Tripathi

Akshay Kumar

M. Z. Idris

机构：

[1] King George Medical University,Department of Pediatrics

[2] Kalawati Saran Childrens’ Hospital,Department of Community Medicine

[3] Macclesfield Hospital,undefined

[4] King George Medical University,undefined

来源：

Health Care Analysis | 2007年 / 15卷

关键词：

Rural private medical practitioners; Quacks; Survey; Ayush practitioners; Indigenous medical practitioners; Inequity;

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摘要：

A considerable section of the population in India accesses the services of individual private medical practitioners (PMPs) for primary level care. In rural areas, these providers include MBBS doctors, practitioners of alternative systems of medicine, herbalists, indigenous and folk practitioners, compounders and others. This paper describes the profile, knowledge and some practices of the rural doctor in India and then discusses the reasons for lack of equity in health care access in rural areas and possible solutions to the problem.

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页码：223 / 233

页数：10