Title |
Rwanda’s evolving community health worker system: a qualitative assessment of client and provider perspectives
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Published in |
Human Resources for Health, December 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-12-71 |
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Authors |
Jeanine Condo, Catherine Mugeni, Brienna Naughton, Kathleen Hall, Maria Antonia Tuazon, Abiud Omwega, Friday Nwaigwe, Peter Drobac, Ziauddin Hyder, Fidele Ngabo, Agnes Binagwaho |
Abstract |
Community health workers (CHWs) can play important roles in primary health care delivery, particularly in settings of health workforce shortages. However, little is known about CHWs' perceptions of barriers and motivations, as well as those of the beneficiaries of CHWs. In Rwanda, which faces a significant gap in human resources for health, the Ministry of Health expanded its community health programme beginning in 2007, eventually placing 4 trained CHWs in every village in the country by 2009. The aim of this study was to assess the capacity of CHWs and the factors affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of the CHW programme, as perceived by the CHWs and their beneficiaries. |
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Rwanda | 3 | 17% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 11% |
Belgium | 1 | 6% |
United States | 1 | 6% |
Colombia | 1 | 6% |
Unknown | 10 | 56% |
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Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 17% |
Scientists | 2 | 11% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
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South Africa | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
Romania | 1 | <1% |
Rwanda | 1 | <1% |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 449 | 99% |
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Researcher | 65 | 14% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 47 | 10% |
Student > Bachelor | 46 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 24 | 5% |
Other | 84 | 18% |
Unknown | 86 | 19% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 132 | 29% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 72 | 16% |
Social Sciences | 61 | 13% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 3% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 2% |
Other | 68 | 15% |
Unknown | 98 | 22% |