Linking communities to formal health care providers through village health teams in rural Uganda: lessons from linking social capital

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• 作者：Laban Kashaija Musinguzi ; Emmanueil Benon Turinawe…
• 关键词：Village health teams ; Community health workers ; Linking social capital ; Uganda
• 刊名：Human Resources for Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：552KB
• 刊物主题：Health Administration; Social Policy; Human Resource Management; Human Resource Development; Practice and Hospital Management;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1478-4491
• 卷排序：15

文摘

BackgroundCommunity-based programmes, particularly community health workers (CHWs), have been portrayed as a cost-effective alternative to the shortage of health workers in low-income countries. Usually, literature emphasises how easily CHWs link and connect communities to formal health care services. There is little evidence in Uganda to support or dispute such claims. Drawing from linking social capital framework, this paper examines the claim that village health teams (VHTs), as an example of CHWs, link and connect communities with formal health care services.