| Title |
Community health workers: to train or to restrain? A longitudinal survey to assess the impact of training community health workers in the Bolama Region, Guinea-Bissau
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-12-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sérgio C Lopes, António J Cabral, Bruno de Sousa |
| Abstract |
The shortage in human resources for health affects most dramatically developing countries which frequently use community health workers (CHW) as the basis for health programmes and services. The traditional definition refers CHWs as members of the community who are recruited and trained in health prevention and promotion to provide services within their community. In Guinea-Bissau, CHWs play a fundamental role in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood diarrheal diseases - one of the main health problems in the country. |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 120 | 97% |
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| Student > Master | 23 | 19% |
| Researcher | 16 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 10% |
| Other | 32 | 26% |
| Unknown | 13 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 26 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 22 | 18% |
| Unknown | 18 | 15% |
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