Impact of the Liberian National Community Health Assistant Program on childhood illness care in Grand Bassa County, Liberia.

ABSTRACT: Liberia launched its National Community Health Assistant Program in 2016, which seeks to ensure that all people living 5 kilometers or farther from a health facility have access to trained, supplied, supervised, and paid community health workers (CHWs). This study aims to evaluate the impact of the national program following implementation in Grand Bassa County in 2018 using data from population-based surveys that included information on 1291 illness episodes. We measured before-to-after changes in care for childhood illness by qualified providers in a portion of the county that implemented in a first phase compared to those which had not yet implemented. We also assessed changes in whether children received oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea and malaria rapid diagnostic tests if they h

SUBMITTER: White E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021826 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature