Community-orientated primary health care: Exploring the interface between community health worker programmes, the health system and communities in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Due to insufficient number of health workers and the evidence of the benefits of community health workers (CHWs), CHWs are being deployed to provide health care services to under-served communities. In this article, we explore to what extent the South African CHW programmes introduced between 2009 and 2011 are attuned to community needs, integrated into the healthcare system and community structures, and also implemented in accordance with community-orientated primary health care principles. Using a case study approach, we studied CHW teams in seven primary healthcare facilities located in semi-urban and rural areas of Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa. We collected data using in-depth interviews involving facility managers, CHW supervisors, community representatives and key i

SUBMITTER: Malatji H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021906 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature