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

• Main Authors: Eunice Mallari (Author), Gideon Lasco (Author), Don Jervis Sayman (Author), Arianna Maever L. Amit (Author), Dina Balabanova (Author), Martin McKee (Author), Jhaki Mendoza (Author), Lia Palileo-Villanueva (Author), Alicia Renedo (Author), Maureen Seguin (Author), Benjamin Palafox (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract 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)...