Supporting close-to-community providers through a community health system approach: Case examples from Ethiopia and Tanzania

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lunsford, Sarah Smith ^a   Fatta, Kate ^b   Stover, Kim Ethier ^b   Shrestha, Ram ^b  

^a ENCOMPASS LLC   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Community health systems; CTC providers; Ethiopia; Improvement; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; COMPLICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TANZANIA;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84926346674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-015-0006-6     Document Type: Article

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