Journey From a Digital Innovation to a Sustainable Health Worker Capacity-Building App in India: Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons Learned.

ABSTRACT: Health workers, especially auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs), are among the most critical resources in improving the quality of immunization services and reducing vaccine hesitancy under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) in India. To improve health worker immunization skills, UIP trainings in India are primarily conducted through instructor-led classroom, cascade trainings. However, a 2018 capacity-building need assessment revealed several challenges involved in traditional classroom training, such as a single-time exposure to new guidelines, complicated logistics arrangements, a lack of refresher training, and varying quality of training. These complexities make it difficult to meet the timely knowledge and skill needs of every health worker effectively and uniformly in a rapidly c

SUBMITTER: Chase R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11216696 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature