Doctoring the Village Doctors: Giving Attention Where it is Due
Abstract
This book tells the story of a package of public health interventions aimed at improving the quality of care of informal village doctors. The intervention took place in Chakaria, a rural area in rural Bangladesh, where village doctors are a major group of informal healthcare providers practising and dispensing modern medicines. Quite often, the drugs they dispense are inappropriate or even harmful.
A team of ICDDR,B researchers tested a package of interventions, which included training of the village doctors, establishing a community watch for improved accountability and establishing branded franchise of better trained village doctors. This book chronicles the background to and design of the interventions, examines its outcomes, and outlines how lessons learnt have informed new approaches to improving the services of village doctors
Citation
Wahed, T.; Rasheed, S.; Bhuiya, A. Doctoring the Village Doctors: Giving Attention Where it is Due. ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2012) 87 pp. ISBN 978-984-551-332-6
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