Ethiopia's health extension workers use of work time on duty: Time and motion study

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 320-328

  Tilahun, Hibret ^a   Fekadu, Binyam ^b   Abdisa, Habtamu ^b   Canavan, Maureen ^c   Linnander, Erika ^c   Bradley, Elizabeth H ^c   Berman, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b John Snow Research and Training Institute Inc   (Ethiopia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Demand; Health extension worker; Motion; Time

Indexed keywords

ETHIOPIA; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME MANAGEMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; RURAL POPULATION; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME MANAGEMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85019653131     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czw129     Document Type: Article

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