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Experiences, opportunities and challenges of implementing task shifting in underserved remote settings: the case of Kongwa district, central Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Tanzania is experiencing acute shortages of Health Workers (HWs), a situation which has forced health managers, especially in the underserved districts, to hastily cope with health workers’ shortages by adopting task shifting. This has however been due to limited options for dealing with...

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Autores principales:	Munga, Michael A, Kilima, Stella P, Mutalemwa, Prince Pius, Kisoka, William J, Malecela, Mwelecele N
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23122296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-12-27

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