Authors: Jennifer L. Brenner, Jerome Kabakyenga, Teddy Kyomuhangi, Kathryn A. Wotton, Carolyn Pim, Moses Ntaro, Fred Norman Bagenda, Ndaruhutse Ruzazaaza Gad, John Godel, James Kayizzi, Douglas McMillan, Edgar Mulogo, Alberto Nettel-Ag
The potential for community health workers to improve child health in sub-Saharan Africa is not well understood. Healthy Child Uganda implemented a volunteer community health worker child health promotion model in rural Uganda. An impact evaluation was conducted to assess volunteer community health workers’ effect on child morbidity, mortality and to calculate volunteer retention. A low-cost child health promotion model using volunteer community health workers demonstrated decreased child morbidity, dramatic mortality trend declines and high volunteer retention. This sustainable model could be scaled-up to sub-Saharan African communities with limited resources and high child health needs.
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Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness/IMCI, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Resource Type: Journal articles, Research
Year: 2011
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Country: Uganda
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