The evolving socio-political context of community health worker programmes in South Africa: Implications for historical analysis. A commentary on van Ginneken, Lewin and Berridge "the emergence of community health worker programmes in the late-apartheid era in South Africa: An historical analysis"(2010)

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1021-1024

  Van Rensburg, Dingie J ^a   Wouters, Edwin ^b   De Wet, Katinka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apartheid; Community health worker policy; Community health worker programmes; Community health workers; Community participation; Oral history; South Africa; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; NOTE; NURSING KNOWLEDGE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLICATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STAFF TRAINING;

COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79953764864     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.026     Document Type: Note

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