Effect of deploying community health assistants on appropriate treatment for diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia: quasi-experimental study in two districts of Zambia
详细信息 查看全文
- 作者：Godfrey Biemba ; Kojo Yeboah-Antwi ; Kathryn Bradford Vosburg ; Margaret L. Prust ; Brett Keller ; Yekoyesew Worku ; Happy Zulu ; Emily White and Davidson H. Hamer
- 刊名：Tropical Medicine & International Health
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：August 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：21
- 期：8
- 页码：985-994
- 全文大小：82K
- ISSN：1365-3156
文摘
A critical shortage of human resources for health in Zambia remains a great challenge. In response, the Zambian Ministry of Health developed a national community health assistant (CHA) programme, aiming to create a well-trained and motivated community-based health workforce. This study assessed whether CHAs increased treatment rates for diarrhoea, confirmed malaria or pneumonia in the first programme year.