Becoming and remaining community health workers: perspectives from Ethiopia and Mozambique.

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  2013

• Venue

  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  2013-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.026PMID 23631778PMCID PMC3732583
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