Integrating national community-based health worker programmes into health systems: A systematic review identifying lessons learned from low-and middle-income countries

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zulu, Joseph Mumba ^a,b   Kinsman, John ^b   Michelo, Charles ^a   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Health systems; Integration; Low and middle income countries; National community based health worker programmes

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHIOPIA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INDIA; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BRAZIL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHIOPIA; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INDIA; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84907976489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-987     Document Type: Article

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