Experience with the use of community health extension workers in primary care, in a private rural health care institution in South-South Nigeria

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 240-245

  Ordinioha, Best ^a,b   Onyenaporo, Chinyere ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

^b Rural Health Forum   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Community Health Extension Worker; primary care; rural healthcare; substitute health worker

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSULTATION; DIARRHEA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NIGERIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TYPHOID FEVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; MANPOWER; NON PROFIT HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; MALE; NIGERIA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONNEL DELEGATION; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77958066155     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.70964     Document Type: Article

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