A new tool to measure approaches to supervision from the perspective of community health workers: a prospective, longitudinal, validation study in seven countries

• Main Authors: Frédérique Vallières (Author), Philip Hyland (Author), Eilish McAuliffe (Author), Ilias Mahmud (Author), Olivia Tulloch (Author), Polly Walker (Author), Miriam Taegtmeyer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The global scale-up of community health workers (CHWs) depends on supportive management and supervision of this expanding cadre. Existing tools fail to incorporate the perspective of the CHW (i.e. perceived supervision) in terms of supportive experiences with their supervisor. Al...