Informal Health Workers: To Be Encouraged or Condemned?


 
Language:

English

Author:

Omaswa F

Series/Journal Title:

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume:

84

Issue:

2

Pages:

1

Description:

An editorial arguing for expanding the professional category of the formal health care workers to include home-based informal caregivers, political community leaders, shop vendors of health products, and traditional health practitioners. The editorial further notes that formal health workers can become informal health workers when operating outside the rules of the health system.

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