Individual and contextual factors associated with community health workers' performance in Nyanza Province, Kenya: A multilevel analysis

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kawakatsu, Yoshito ^a,b   Sugishita, Tomohiko ^a   Tsutsui, Junya ^c   Oruenjo, Kennedy ^d   Wakhule, Stephen ^d   Kibosia, Kennedy ^d   Were, Eric ^d   Honda, Sumihisa ^b  

^a JICA SEMAH Project   (Kenya)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Contextual factor; Human resource; Kenya; Multilevel analysis; Performance; Rural area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84942693582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-1117-4     Document Type: Article

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