Community health workers: A crucial role in newborn health care and survival

There is ample evidence from research and implementation to show that community health workers, when appropriately trained, supplied, supported and supervised, can identify and correctly treat most children for pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria. Community management of childhood illness is an import...

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Main Authors: Samira Aboubaker, Shamim Qazi, Cathy Wolfheim, Adebowale Oyegoke, Rajiv Bahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Global Health Society 2014-11-01
Series:Journal of Global Health
Subjects:
CHW
Online Access:http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201402/V2_Aboubaker.XML