Community health workers: To train or to restrain? A longitudinal survey to assess the impact of training community health workers in the Bolama Region, Guinea-Bissau

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lopes, Sérgio C ^a   Cabral, António J ^b   de Sousa, Bruno ^c  

^a The MENTOR Initiative ^*  (Angola)

^b CMDT Center for Malaria and Tropical Medicine   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Diagnosis accuracy; Diarrheal diseases; Impact; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIARRHEA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84894099895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-12-8     Document Type: Article

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