Authors: Jane Goudge, Tobias Chirwa, Sandra Eldridge, Francesc Xavier F Gómez-Olivé, Chodziwadziwa Kabudul, Felix Limbani, Eustasius Musenge, Margaret Thorogood
With the urgency of the HIV and TB epidemics in some low and middle-income countries, prevalent chronic diseases such as hypertension are often neglected by health services. This study assesses whether task-shifting from nurses to lay health workers (LHWs) improves the management of hypertension in rural primary healthcare clinics in South Africa.
Link: Can lay health workers support the management of hypertension? Findings of a cluster randomised trial in South Africa
Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, HIV and AIDS, NON Communicable Diseases/NCD, Program Design, Program Management, Task shifting, Training, Tuberculosis
Resource Type: Best practices, Journal articles, Research
Year: 2017
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Country: South Africa
Publisher May Restrict Access: No