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. 2018;31(102):46.

How to create a balanced eye team: an example from Malawi

Khumbo Kalua  1
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How to create a balanced eye team: an example from Malawi

Khumbo Kalua. Community Eye Health. 2018.
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Task shifting: a trachoma trichiasis surgeon performing trichiasis surgery in the community. MALAWI
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References

    1. VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. Developing an Action Plan www.iapb.org/vision-2020/

Further reading

    1. First Global Conference on Task Shifting www.who.int/healthsystems/task_shifting/en/
    1. Task shifting to tackle health worker shortages www.who.int/healthsystems/task_shifting_booklet.pdf
    1. Eliah E, Lewallen S, Kalua K, Courtright P, Gichangi M, Bassett K. Task shifting for cataract surgery in eastern Africa: productivity and attrition of non-physician cataract surgeons in Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania. Human Resources for Health 2014:12(Suppl 1):S4 10.1186/1478-4491-12-S1-S4 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Gichangi M, Kalua K, Barassa E, Eliah E, Lewallen S, Courtright P. Task Shifting for Eye Care in Eastern Africa: General Nurses as Trichiasis Surgeons in Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2015;22(3): 226–30. doi: 10.3109/09286586. 2015.1040924. - PubMed

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