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The community health volunteer scheme in India: an evaluation.
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The analysis shows that the CHV scheme has succeeded in bringing primary curative care to the doorsteps of the people and has also helped in improving related services such as family planning, immunization and detection and treatment of malaria.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Community health & Health care.read more
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Community-based health workers: Head start or false start towards health for all?
TL;DR: This review of six large-scale community-based worker programs suggests that they have succeeded in some of their objectives but not in others, and that their potential has not been achieved in large routine programs.
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Low utilization of community health workers: results from a household interview survey in Burkina Faso.
TL;DR: Individual and household characteristics such as income, ethnicity, and household size were only weakly associated with choice of curative care and Severity of disease and perceived effectiveness of the treatment were the most important determinants of health seeking behavior.
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Improving skills and utilization of community health volunteers in nepal
TL;DR: The study analyses the effects of a Nutrition Education Intervention (NEI), specifically designed to reduce vitamin A deficiency, on skills and utilization of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in rural Nepal, with a positive return for all PHC activities.
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Poor performance of community health workers in Kalabo District, Zambia
TL;DR: Though initially implemented as such, the comprehensive approach of the primary health care project is no longer functioning in Kalabo and strategies will have to be formulated to rehabilitate the programme, mainly focussing on these two findings.
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Assessment of ‘Accredited Social Health Activists’—A National Community Health Volunteer Scheme in Karnataka State, India
Farah Naaz Fathima,Mohan Raju,Kiruba Sankar Varadharajan,Aditi Krishnamurthy,S R Ananthkumar,Prem Mony +5 more
TL;DR: The ASHA workers were found to be functional in some areas with scope for improvement in others and the role of an ASHA worker was perceived to be more of a link-worker/facilitator rather than a community health worker or a social activist.