Community health workers' efforts to build health system trust in marginalised communities: a qualitative study from South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community health workers (CHWs) enable marginalised communities, often experiencing structural poverty, to access healthcare. Trust, important in all patient-provider relationships, is difficult to build in such communities, particularly when stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and now COVID-19, is widespread. CHWs, responsible for bringing people back into care, must repair trust. In South Africa, where a national CHW programme is being rolled out, marginalised communities have high levels of unemployment, domestic violence and injury.

Objectives

In this complex social environment, we explored CHW workplace trust, interpersonal trust between the patient and CHW, and the institutional trust patients place in the health system.

Design, participants,

SUBMITTER: Anstey Watkins J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8137175 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature