Motivations and challenges of community-based surveillance volunteers in the Northern Region of Ghana

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1192-1198

  Dil, Yasemin ^a   Strachan, Daniel ^a   Cairncross, Sandy ^b   Korkor, Andrew Seidu ^c   Hill, Zelee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Challenges; Community health worker; Community based surveillance volunteer; Ghana; Motivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 84872269980     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-012-9569-5     Document Type: Article

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