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| Title |
The role of health extension workers in improving utilization of maternal health services in rural areas in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-352 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Araya Medhanyie, Mark Spigt, Yohannes Kifle, Nikki Schaay, David Sanders, Roman Blanco, Dinant GeertJan, Yemane Berhane |
| Abstract |
Community health workers are widely used to provide care for a broad range of health issues. Since 2003 the government of Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained new cadres of community based health workers named health extension workers (HEWs). This initiative has been called the health extension program. Very few studies have investigated the role of these community health workers in improving utilization of maternal health services. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 22% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 5 | 56% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 78% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 519 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | <1% |
| Uganda | 3 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 2 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 507 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 127 | 24% |
| Researcher | 55 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 50 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 49 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 32 | 6% |
| Other | 104 | 20% |
| Unknown | 102 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 181 | 35% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 76 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 60 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 3% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 10 | 2% |
| Other | 58 | 11% |
| Unknown | 119 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 October 2022.
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#719,058
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#156
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#3,867
of 178,942 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#2
of 110 outputs
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