Community health workers in national programmes : just another pair of hands?
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Community health workers in national programmes : just another pair of hands?
Open University Press, 1990
- pbk.
Available at 14 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Community health worker schemes expanded in many developing countries during the 1970s, aimed at promoting primary health care. In recent years questions have been raised about these programmes and the extent to which community health workers have become "just another pair of hands". This book presents the results of a large investigation into what has happened to CHWs in their many guises, in various national programmes. It looks at the context of changing health policies over the last four decades, the emphasis given to primary health care in the 1970s and the resulting confusion about the role of the community health workers. The second part of the book addresses issues about what tasks and skills they have, their place in the health system and the costs of the CHW programmes. Programmes in Botswana, Colombia and Sir Lanka are studied. Finally, the book looks beyond the problems currently being faced to see how such programmes can be made to work more successfully.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Background - CHWS: the evolution of a concept
- who are community health workers. Part 2 Issues: tasks and skills
- links in a chain?
- sustaining CHW programmes. Part 3 Case studies: evaluating CHW programmes
- family welfare educators in Botswana
- health promoters in Colombia
- health volunteers in Sri Lanka. Part 4 Conclusions: just another pair of hands.
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