Village doctors: a national telephone survey of Bangladesh's lay medical practitioners

• Main Authors: Olav Muurlink (Author), Nazim Uzzaman (Author), Rhonda J Boorman (Author), Sarah Binte Kibria (Author), Talitha Best (Author), Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Bangladesh outperforms its Least Developed Country (LDC) status on a range of health measures including life expectancy. Its frontline medical practitioners, however, are not formally trained medical professionals, but instead lightly-trained 'village doctors' able to p...