How do health extension workers in Ethiopia allocate their time?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Governments are increasingly reliant on community health workers to undertake health promotion and provide essential curative care. In 2003, the Government of Ethiopia launched the Health Extension Programme and introduced a new cadre, health extension workers (HEWs), to improve access to care in rural communities. In 2013, to inform the government's plans for HEWs to take on an enhanced role in community-based newborn care, a time and motion study was conducted to understand the range of HEW responsibilities and how they allocate their time across health and non-health activities.

Methods

The study was administered in 69 rural kebeles in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People's Region and Oromia Region that were intervention areas of a trial to evaluate a

SUBMITTER: Mangham-Jefferies L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4209031 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature