Scaling up Health and Education Workers: Community Health Workers


 
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English

Author:

Abbatt F

Publisher:

Department for International Development Health Resource Centre

Pages:

23

Description:

The recent UN Millennium Project (UNMP) report recommended as a ‘quick win’ a massive training of community-based workers. This review examines the evidence to support or reject the hypothesis that investment in community workers can only impact on health outcomes with parallel investments in trained health workers and health systems. [author’s description]

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