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Training Community Health Workers in refugee camps: A case study from Pakistan
Author(s) -
Cutts Felicity
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1984.tb00875.x
Subject(s) - refugee , training (meteorology) , medicine , occupational safety and health , nursing , community health workers , afghan , medical education , environmental health , political science , population , health services , geography , meteorology , law , pathology
In October 1983 a training programme for refugee community health workers was begun as the major part of a primary health care programme for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The programme began with a pilot period in Badaber camp, situated near to Peshawar. The general issues involved in training auxiliary health personnel were answered by the use of a “knowledge, attitudes and practices survey” and involvement of the refugees from the beginning of the programme. The development of the training programme is discussed with reference to these issues and the constraints arising from the special circumstances of the refugees, in addition to those common to most national training programmes, are reviewed.