Working with community health workers to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes: Implementation and scale-up lessons from eastern Uganda

Global Health Action

Volumn 10, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Namazzi, Gertrude ^a,b   Okuga, Monica ^a,b   Tetui, Moses ^a,c   Kananura, Rornald Muhumuza ^a   Kakaire, Ayub ^a,b   Namutamba, Sarah ^a   Mutebi, Aloysius ^a   Kiwanuka, Suzanne Namusoke ^a   Ekirapa Kiracho, Elizabeth ^a   Waiswa, Peter ^a,b,d  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Community mobilization; Implementation science; Maternal and newborn health; Training and supervision

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT HEALTH; MALE; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85028931577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1345495     Document Type: Article

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