A Community Health Worker "logic model" : Towards a theory of enhanced performance in low- and middle-income countries

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Naimoli, Joseph F ^a   Frymus, Diana E ^a   Wuliji, Tana ^b   Franco, Lynne M ^c   Newsome, Martha H ^d  

^a UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b United States Agency for International Development Georgia Tuberculosis Prevention Project   (United States)

^c ENCOMPASS LLC   (United States)

^d World Vision International   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal thinking; Community health workers; Logic model; Performance; Policy; Programming

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGIC; MANPOWER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84908083383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-12-56     Document Type: Article

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