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| Title |
Hope and despair: community health assistants’ experiences of working in a rural district in Zambia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-12-30 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Joseph Mumba Zulu, John Kinsman, Charles Michelo, Anna-Karin Hurtig |
| Abstract |
In order to address the challenges facing the community-based health workforce in Zambia, the Ministry of Health implemented the national community health assistant strategy in 2010. The strategy aims to address the challenges by creating a new group of workers called community health assistants (CHAs) and integrating them into the health system. The first group started working in August 2012. The objective of this paper is to document their motivation to become a CHA, their experiences of working in a rural district, and how these experiences affected their motivation to work. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Ghana | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 8 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 86% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 176 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 170 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 16% |
| Researcher | 27 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 12% |
| Unspecified | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 35 | 20% |
| Unknown | 35 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 34 | 19% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 13% |
| Unspecified | 16 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 22 | 13% |
| Unknown | 42 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 02 August 2014.
All research outputs
#4,102,788
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#473
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,192
of 240,370 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#10
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,261 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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