Expanding Community Health Worker decision space: learning from a Participatory Action Research training intervention in a rural South African district

• Main Authors: Lucia D'Ambruoso (Author), Nana Akua Abruquah (Author), Denny Mabetha (Author), Maria van der Merwe (Author), Gerhard Goosen (Author), Jerry Sigudla (Author), Sophie Witter (Author), the Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background While integral to decentralising health reforms, Community Health Workers (CHWs) in South Africa experience many challenges. During COVID-19, CHW roles changed rapidly, shifting from communities to clinics. In the contexts of new roles and re-engineered primary healthcare (PHC),...