Home visits by community health workers in rural South Africa have a limited, but important impact on maternal and child health in the first two years of life

• Main Authors: Linnea Stansert Katzen (Author), Mark Tomlinson (Author), Joan Christodoulou (Author), Christina Laurenzi (Author), Ingrid le Roux (Author), Venetia Baker (Author), Nokwanele Mbewu (Author), Karl W. le Roux (Author), Mary Jane Rotheram Borus (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background More than 50% of Africa's population lives in rural areas, which have few professional health workers. South Africa has adopted task shifting health care to Community Health Workers (CHWs) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, but little is known about CHWs' eff...