Learning from Community Health Worker Programs, Big and Small
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Key Message Small, well-implemented, well-evaluated community health worker programs can provide useful insights and inspiration. Testing, learning, and adapting at progressively larger scale can ultimately lead to national-scale programs that achieve sustainable impact.
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Ethiopia and BRAC have established exemplary programmes that address CHW selection, management, and integration issues.
“At present, Ethiopia and BRAC have established exemplary programmes that address these issues in their programmes, and much can be learned by a closer analysis of how their programmes work [13, 25, 93].”
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- Authors
- Hodgins, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Hodgins, Stephen
- ORCID
- Hodgins, Stephen
- Venue
- Global Health: Science and Practice
- Published
- 2020-06-30
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 147-149
- ISSN
- 2169-575X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7326522
- OpenAlex
- W3040165123
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 3
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Global Health Science and Practice (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Community Health and Development
- Keywords
- community health workers, program evaluation, scale-up, sustainable impact, healthcare workers
- MeSH terms
- Community Health Workers, Community Health Services, Humans, Rural Population
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