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global health workforce alliance
World Health Organization
(2015)
C_WHO
Community-based strategies play a significant role in many health systems in low- and middle-income countries, especially in light of critical shortages in the health workforce. The term community health worker has been used to refer to volunteers and salaried, professional or lay health workers with a wide range of training, experience, scope of practice and integration in health systems. In the context of this study, we use the term community-based practitioner (CBPs) to reflect the diverse nature of these cadres of health workers.
CBPs provide preventive, promotive, curative and palliative services across a range of areas, including reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, control of other endemic diseases, and noncommunicable diseases. Significant evidence has emerged over the past two decades on their effectiveness, which has triggered interest in the potential to use their services to expand access to care, in particular in rural and underserved areas where deployment and retention of more qualified health workers is problematic. Calls have been made to integrate CBP programmes in human resources and health strategies, and to scale up rapidly the extent and coverage of CBP initiatives ... more
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World Health Organization (WHO); H4+, UNFPA; et al.
World Health Organization (WHO); H4+, UNFPA; et al.
(2015)
C_WHO
Technical brief by the H4+ (UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, WHO and the World Bank)
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Ministry of Health, Division of Community Health Services, Division of Non-Communicable Diseases
(2015)
CC
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Quinn, V., and A. Guyon
(2015)
CC
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Quinn, V., and A. Guyon
(2015)
CC
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Medical Aid Films
(2014)
CC
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University of Western Cape; University of Cape Town, Maastricht University et al.
Learning Network
(2014)
CC
Community Health Committee Training
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Bruniea, A.; P. Wamala-Mucheri, C. Otterness, et al.
(2014)
CC
Glob Health Sci Pract February 1, 2014 vol. 2 no. 1 p. 103-116
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Kumar, M.; R. Nefdt, E. Ribaira and K. Diallo
UNICEF
(2014)
C_UNICEF
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N. Ashraf; O.Bandiera; S.Lee
Innovation for Poverty Action
(2014)
C1
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