The Community Health Worker: Effective Programmes for Developing Countries - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0192622366 ISBN 13: 9780192622365

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1992

Riassunto

This book presents the current place and future role of the community health worker. The majority of the world's population continues to suffer levels of ill-health and death that are only a distant memory in prosperous countries. Approaches to alleviating this burden are well-known, and range from specific medical interventions to broader development policies.

Since the Chinese experience of mobilising 'barefoot doctors' became known, the approach of training villagers to offer local services has received strong support from international agencies and governments. More recently reports of the quality of the services offered by these workers has indicated that a large gulf may have existed between the rhetoric and the reality. Some have questioned the basic premise that such workers can make a valuable contribution. However, the debate has been informed only by a limited number of often dated accounts.

This book analyses programmes in a limited number of countries whose experience is particularly relevant to understanding the role of these workers. The picture that emerges demonstrates the potential value of community health workers as individuals, but highlights the widespread failure of the programmes required to support them. Through case studies and an analytical overview, this book sets out the preconditions for effective community health worker programmes.

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Contenuti

Overview; Community-based health programmes in Indonesia: The challenge of supporting a national expansion; The current situation of village health worker programmes in China; Community health workers in Nepal; Community health work - India's experience; Community health workers in Tanzania; The State and democratization in primary health care: community participation and the village health worker programme in Zimbabwe; The limits of participation in health: brigadista programmes in Nicaragua; The village context of Honduras' village health worker programme: 1980-84; References; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0192622366
• ISBN 13: 9780192622365
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Redattore: Frankel Stephen
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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