Hope and Despair: Community Health Assistants’ Experiences of Working in a Rural District in Zambia
Language:
English
Series/Journal Title:
Human Resources for Health
Volume:
12
Issue:
30
Copyright:
2013
Description:
In order to address the challenges facing the community-based health workforce in Zambia, the Ministry of Health implemented the national community health assistant strategy in 2010. The strategy aims to address the challenges by creating a new group of workers called community health assistants (CHAs) and integrating them into the health system. The first group started working in August 2012. The objective of this paper is to document their motivation to become a CHA, their experiences of working in a rural district, and how these experiences affected their motivation to work.
Subject
Geographic Focus
Resource Type
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