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

• Glavni autori: Eunice Mallari (Autor), Gideon Lasco (Autor), Don Jervis Sayman (Autor), Arianna Maever L. Amit (Autor), Dina Balabanova (Autor), Martin McKee (Autor), Jhaki Mendoza (Autor), Lia Palileo-Villanueva (Autor), Alicia Renedo (Autor), Maureen Seguin (Autor), Benjamin Palafox (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: 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)...