Professional advice for primary healthcare workers in Ethiopia: a social network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In an era of increasingly competitive funding, governments and donors will be looking for creative ways to extend and maximise resources. One such means can include building upon professional advice networks to more efficiently introduce, scale up, or change programmes and healthcare provider practices. This cross-sectional, mixed-methods, observational study compared professional advice networks of healthcare workers in eight primary healthcare units across four regions of Ethiopia. Primary healthcare units include a health centre and typically five satellite health posts.

Methods

One hundred sixty staff at eight primary healthcare units were interviewed using a structured tool. Quantitative data captured the frequency of healthcare worker advice seeking and givi

SUBMITTER: Sabot K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7302001 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature