Authors: Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Thomas Davis, Pieter Ernst
Care Groups use volunteers to motivate mothers to adopt key MCH behaviors. The volunteers meet as a group every 2-4 weeks with a paid facilitator to learn new health promotion messages. Key ingredients of the approach include: peer-to-peer health promotion, selection of volunteers by the mothers, a manageable workload for the volunteers (no more than 15 households per volunteer), frequent (at least monthly) contact between volunteers and mothers, and regular supervision of the volunteers.
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Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Community Involvement, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Resource Type: Case studies, Journal articles, Research
Year: 2015
Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Global
Publisher May Restrict Access: No