Improving access to health care amongst vulnerable populations: a qualitative study of village malaria workers in Kampot, Cambodia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is growing interest in the expansion of community health workers programmes in low- and middle-income countries as a cost-effective approach to address shortages of health professionals. However, our understanding of the reception of large-scale programmes and how to improve them remains limited, with knowledge gaps about factors that may promote or discourage equitable access to services. This paper examines the case of the Village Malaria Workers (VMW) programme in Cambodia, an extensive community-based intervention for the management of malaria cases in remote rural areas.

Method

Fieldwork was conducted in Kampot province, in six case villages characterised by different programme configuration, population size, and distance to the nearest public health fa

SUBMITTER: Liverani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5423018 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature