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| Title |
Impact of dropout of female volunteer community health workers: An exploration in Dhaka urban slums
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-260 |
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| Authors |
Khurshid Alam, Jahangir AM Khan, Damian G Walker |
| Abstract |
The model of volunteer community health workers (CHWs) is a common approach to serving the poor communities in developing countries. BRAC, a large NGO in Bangladesh, is a pioneer in this area, has been using female CHWs as core workers in its community-based health programs since 1977. After 25 years of implementing of the CHW model in rural areas, BRAC has begun using female CHWs in urban slums through a community-based maternal health intervention. However, BRAC experiences high dropout rates among CHWs suggesting a need to better understand the impact of their dropout which would help to reduce dropout and increase program sustainability. The main objective of the study was to estimate impact of dropout of volunteer CHWs from both BRAC and community perspectives. Also, we estimated cost of possible strategies to reduce dropout and compared whether these costs were more or less than the costs borne by BRAC and the community. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 13% |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 156 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 1% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 149 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 40 | 26% |
| Researcher | 28 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 14 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 15 | 10% |
| Unknown | 24 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 44 | 28% |
| Social Sciences | 26 | 17% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 12% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 6 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 20 | 13% |
| Unknown | 36 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 26 March 2018.
All research outputs
#4,220,985
of 23,577,761 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#1,920
of 7,847 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,294
of 170,378 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#13
of 117 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 7,847 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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