Authors: James Bagonza, Simon PS Kibira and Elizeus Rutebemberwa
Lay community health workers (CHWs) have been widely used to provide curative interventions in communities that have traditionally lacked access to health care. Optimal performance of CHWs managing children with malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea in communities is desired if a reduction in childhood morbidity and
mortality is to be achieved.
Few studies have investigated the performance of CHWs managing malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea in children under the iCCM programmes. These studies have mainly focused on CHWs who only treat malaria and pneumonia excluding diarrhoeal illnesses and are inconclusive on factors that affect their performance.
This study assessed factors influencing performance of CHWs managing malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea under the Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) programme in Wakiso district, central Uganda. The aim of this study was to determine the performance of CHWs managing common childhood illnesses and to assess factors influencing their performance so to guide future scale up of the iCCM programme.
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Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness/IMCI, Malaria, Performance management
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2014
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Uganda
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