Quantifying and Valuing Community Health Worker Time in Improving Access to Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment | Zendy

Joëlle Castellani | Zendy; Borislava Mihaylova | Zendy; IkeOluwapo O. Ajayi | Zendy; Mohamadou Siribié | Zendy; Jesca NsungwaSabiiti | Zendy; Chinenye Afonne | Zendy; Luc Sermé | Zendy; Andrew Balyeku | Zendy; Vanessa Kabarungi | Zendy; Josephine Kyaligonza | Zendy; Silvia M. A. A. Evers | Zendy; Aggie Paulus | Zendy; Max Petzold | Zendy; Jan Singlovic | Zendy; Melba Gomes | Zendy

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Quantifying and Valuing Community Health Worker Time in Improving Access to Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment

Author(s) -

Joëlle Castellani,

Borislava Mihaylova,

IkeOluwapo O. Ajayi,

Mohamadou Siribié,

Jesca NsungwaSabiiti,

Chinenye Afonne,

Luc Sermé,

Andrew Balyeku,

Vanessa Kabarungi,

Josephine Kyaligonza,

Silvia M. A. A. Evers,

Aggie Paulus,

Max Petzold,

Jan Singlovic,

Melba Gomes

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciw629

Subject(s) - medicine , malaria , community health workers , intensive care medicine , environmental health , health services , pathology , population

Community health workers (CHWs) are members of a community who are chosen by their communities as first-line, volunteer health workers. The time they spend providing healthcare and the value of this time are often not evaluated. Our aim was to quantify the time CHWs spent on providing healthcare before and during the implementation of an integrated program of diagnosis and treatment of febrile illness in 3 African countries.

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