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How frontline healthcare workers respond to stock-outs of essential medicines in the Eastern Cape
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Shortages of essential medicines are a daily occurrence in many of South Africa’s public health facilities. This study focuses in greater depth on the responses of healthcare workers to stock-outs, investigating how actors at the ‘frontline’ of public health delivery understand, experience and respond to shortages of essential medicines and equipment in their facilities. Findings are based on focus groups, observations and interviews with healthcare workers and patients, working within a v...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i9.12476
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- Publisher:
- Health and Medical Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- South African Medical Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 107
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 738-740
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-04-06
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0038-2469
- Source identifiers:
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697304
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- pubs:697304
- Deposit date:
- 2017-05-25
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- © 2017 Hodes, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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