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A considerable section of the population in India accesses the services of individual private medical practitioners (PMPs) for primary level care. In rural areas, these providers include MBBS doctors, practitioners of alternative systems of medicine, herbalists, indigenous and folk practitioners, compounders and others. This paper describes the profile, knowledge and some practices of the rural doctor in India and then discusses the reasons for lack of equity in health care access in rural areas and possible solutions to the problem.
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Kumar, R., Jaiswal, V., Tripathi, S. et al. Inequity in Health Care Delivery in India: The Problem of Rural Medical Practitioners. Health Care Anal 15, 223–233 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-007-0060-x
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