Community-directed health (CDH) workers enhance the performance and sustainability of CDH programmes: Experience from ivermectin distribution in Uganda

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 275-286

  Katabarwa, M N ^a   Richards F O , Jr ^a  

^a Carter Center Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UGANDA; VOLUNTEER;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0034995911     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.2001.11813639     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Monetary incentives are detrimental to community-directed health programmes in some less-developed countries
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4. In rural Uganda communities the traditional kinship/clan system is vital to the success and sustainment of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control
5. Impact of mass treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin on the transmission of infection