Who are CHWs? An ethnographic study of the multiple identities of community health workers in three rural Districts in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous studies have examined the role of community health workers (CHWs) in improving the delivery of health services and accelerating progress towards national and international development goals. A limited but growing body of studies have also explored the interactions between CHWs' personal, communal and professional identities and the implications of these for their profession. CHWs possess multiple, overlapping roles and identities, which makes them effective primary health care providers when properly supported with adequate resources, but it also limits their ability to implement interventions that only target certain members of their community, follow standard business working days and hours. In some situations, it even prevents them from performing certain dut

SUBMITTER: Rafiq MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802175 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature