Document Type : Viewpoint
Authors
1 Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
2 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Keywords
Introduction
Informal healthcare providers (IHPs) have provided primary healthcare services to millions of rural people in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)1. They are popularly known by several names, such as Rural Unqualified Health Practitioners (RUHPs), often called informal healthcare providers, village doctors, unqualified practitioners, non-trained allopathy medicine providers, unlicensed providers, non‐formal providers, non-degree health providers, and quacks across various Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs)1. ...(Read more...)
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