The introduction of primary health care made Nigeria, a developing country, train and retrain community health workers to work all over the country especially in the rural communities where there is dearth of or no doctors. Despite their training and experience many people are skeptical of their ...
health extension workers (CHEWs) in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria participated in a hypertension training series following the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model which leverages technology and a practical peer-to-peer learning framework to virtually train healthcare ...
However, a study done in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Uganda found that CHWs spend longer visit times between 56 and 77 min on activities of testing and treatment components [50], which makes sense for the type of activities. In our study, four out of six catchment areas have greater than ...
This paper describes the application of an operations research (OR) approach to the resolution of operational problems in the supervision of community health workers (CHWs) in rural Nigeria. It illustrates the application of a modified form of the Multiple Criteria Utility Assessment (MCUA) model ...
CBE has increasingly been integrated into health professions curricula since the 1990s, and it is evident from studies in Indonesia [8], Nigeria [9, 10] and Uganda [11] that community members appreciate CBE and deem the students’ activities as beneficial. Community members report that they ...
(FAO), conflict has been a key driver or aggravating factor for all of them [56]. Communities are being pushed onto the brink of or into famine, as is currently the case in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the occupied territory of Gaza, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen [56,57,...
Involving community health workers (CHWs) in maternal and neonatal care and death review processes in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (sSA) has reduced maternal and neonatal mortality. CHWs in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Kenya, Malawi and Nigeria were demonstrably well positioned, geographically and soc...
Bull World Health Organ, ... K Hermann,WV Damme,GW Pariyo,... 被引量: 127发表: 2009年 Workforce Resources for Health in Developing Countries sub- Saharan Africa healthNigeria healthprimary healthcaremid-level health workerscommunity health workersWith increased globalization and interdependence among...
rural communes in the health district of Mayahi in Niger, showed that including community health workers (CHWs) in the treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) resulted in a better recovery rate (77.2% vs. 72.1%) compared with the standard treatment provided solely at the health centers. ...
1Department of Community Medicine, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria &Corresponding author Ogban Omoronyia, Department of Community Medicine, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Abstract Introduction:in developing countries, community health workers (CHWs) are essential, for provision of behaviour...