Connecting communities to primary care: a qualitative study on the roles, motivations and lived experiences of community health workers in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Mallari, Eunice, Lasco, Gideon, Sayman, Don Jervis, Amit, Arianna Maever L, Balabanova, Dina, McKee, Martin, Mendoza, Jhaki, Palileo-Villanueva, Lia M, Renedo, Alicia, Seguin, Maureen L, Palafox, Benjamin
• 格式: text
• 出版: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• 主題: Community health workers; Primary health care; Human resources for health; Health systems; Philippines; Development Studies; Medicine and Health Sciences; Public Health
• 在線閱讀: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/63; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=dev-stud-faculty-pubs

Background Community health workers (CHWs) are an important cadre of the primary health care (PHC) workforce in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Philippines was an early adopter of the CHW model for the delivery of PHC, launching the Barangay (village) Health Worker (BHW) programme...