Training for Community Health: Bridging the Global Health Care Gap

Training for Community Health: Bridging the Global Health Care Gap
ISBN-10
0198866240
ISBN-13
9780198866244
Category
Community health aides
Pages
257
Language
English
Published
2021
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
James O'Donovan, Niall Winters, Anne Geniets

Description

Over a decade ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified a severe shortage of health care workers in the global health workforce (WHO 2006), with rural and low-income settings being disproportionately affected (Global Health Workforce Alliance, 2013). Simultaneously, emerging evidence suggested that the deployment of community health workers (CHWs) in these areas was helping to increase access to basic health care, particularly for underserved population groups (Lehman et al., 2007). More than a decade later, as highlighted in particular by the Ebola outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa and the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, CHWs have become an essential part of an increasingly stretched, yet interconnected, global health workforce"-- Provided by publisher.

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