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As good as physicians: patient perceptions of physicians and non-physician clinicians in rural primary health centers in India

Krishna D Rao, Elizabeth Stierman, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Garima Gupta and Abdul Gaffar
Global Health: Science and Practice November 2013, 1(3):397-406; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00085
Krishna D Rao
aPublic Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
bJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Elizabeth Stierman
bJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Aarushi Bhatnagar
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Garima Gupta
cNational Health Resource Center, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India
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vol. 1 no. 3 397-406
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00085
PubMed 
25276553

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Global Health: Science and Practice
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2169-575X
History 
  • Received: June 10, 2013
  • Accepted: August 14, 2013
  • Published online November 20, 2013.

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  1. Krishna D Raoa,b⇑,
  2. Elizabeth Stiermanb,
  3. Aarushi Bhatnagarb,
  4. Garima Guptac,
  5. Abdul Gaffard
  1. aPublic Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
  2. bJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
  3. cNational Health Resource Center, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India
  4. dAlliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to Krishna D. Rao (kd.rao{at}phfi.org).
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