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| Title |
Retention of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a prospective cohort study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-12-29 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Khurshid Alam, Elizabeth Oliveras |
| Abstract |
Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are a key approach to improving community-based maternal and child health services in developing countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi non-governmental organization (NGO), has employed female volunteer CHWs in its community-based health programs since 1977, recently including its Manoshi project, a community-based maternal and child health intervention in the urban slums of Bangladesh. A case-control study conducted in response to high dropout rates in the first year of the project showed that financial incentives, social prestige, community approval and household responsibilities were related to early retention in the project. In our present prospective cohort study, we aimed to better understand the factors associated with retention of volunteer CHWs once the project was more mature. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 20% |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| South Africa | 1 | 5% |
| Kenya | 1 | 5% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 9 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 80% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 10% |
| Scientists | 2 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 151 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 146 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 20% |
| Researcher | 26 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 27 | 18% |
| Unknown | 33 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 24 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 6 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 23 | 15% |
| Unknown | 48 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 09 October 2014.
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#2,835,742
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#339
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#27,719
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#8
of 26 outputs
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