Systems Support for Task-Shifting to Community Health Workers
Language:
English
Publisher:
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Copyright:
2007
Pages:
5
Description:
Much of current discussion of task shifting focuses on community health workers who are seen as relieving doctors, clinical officers, and especially nurses of some of the health promotion and direct care and support work that professional cadres are frequently unable to deliver because of personnel shortages and distance from communities they service. However, task-shifting cannot work unless close attention is paid both to the systems that support successful implementation and to needed expansion of human resources within overall health care system. [adapted from author]
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