How do health extension workers in Ethiopia allocate their time?
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How do health extension workers in Ethiopia allocate their time?
BACKGROUND Governments are increasingly reliant on community health workers to undertake health promotion and provide essential curative care. In 2003, the Government of Ethiopia launched the Health Extension Programme and introduced a new cadre, health extension workers (HEWs), to improve access to care in rural communities. In 2013, to inform the government's plans for HEWs to take on an enha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Resources for Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1478-4491
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-12-61