Authors: Johnson CD, Noyes J, Haines A, Thomas K, Stockport C, Ribas AN, Harris M.
Health policymakers in many countries are looking at ways of increasing health care coverage by scaling up the deployment of community health workers. Traditionally this has been seen as an option for low and middle income countries with inadequate numbers of trained health professionals. In this commentary, we describe the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil’s scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting with a pilot project in North Wales.
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Policy, Scale-up
Resource Type: Journal articles, Research
Year: 2013
Region: Europe
Country: Wales
Publisher May Restrict Access: No