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Informal rural healthcare providers in North and South India.
Health Policy Plan
July 2014
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Centre for Research in New International Economic Order, Chennai, India, Garhwal Community Development and Welfare Society, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India and Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK.
Rural households in India rely extensively on informal biomedical providers, who lack valid medical qualifications. Their numbers far exceed those of formal providers. Our study reports on the education, knowledge, practices and relationships of informal providers (IPs) in two very different districts: Tehri Garhwal in Uttarakhand (north) and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh (south).
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