Community health workers in global health: Scale and scalability

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 419-435

  Liu, Anne ^a   Sullivan, Sarah ^a   Khan, Mohammed ^b   Sachs, Sonia ^a   Singh, Prabhjot ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

community health workers; continuum of care; global health; health systems; human resources for health; management; Millennium Villages Project; primary healthcare; scalability; scale up

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PAKISTAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEAMWORK;

BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIA; ORGANIZATIONS; PAKISTAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79956339742     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20260     Document Type: Article

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