Community-based healthcare is increasingly important for the well-being of inhabitants of emerging economies. The community model is needed partly because roads are less developed, limiting patients' ability to commute from distant villages to central medical facilities [1]. Also, developing countries have a large rural population base. Some estimates are that rural agriculture employs 75% of the population in developing countries [2].
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Chia et al. (2013) studied this question.