Quantifying and Valuing Community Health Worker Time in Improving Access to Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment

Autor: Silvia M. A. A. Evers, Max Petzold, Jesca Nsungwa-Sabiiti, Jan Singlovic, Andrew Balyeku, IkeOluwapo O. Ajayi, Aggie T. G. Paulus, Josephine Kyaligonza, Mohamadou Siribié, Joëlle Castellani, Luc Sermé, Melba Gomes, Vanessa Kabarungi, Chinenye Afonne, Borislava Mihaylova
Přispěvatelé: Promovendi PHPC, Health Services Research, RS: CAPHRI - R2 - Creating Value-Based Health Care
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Microbiology (medical)
Adult
Male
Rural Population
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
030231 tropical medicine
Time allocation
Artesunate
Nigeria
CHW
workload
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Antimalarials
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Intervention (counseling)
Surveys and Questionnaires
Health care
parasitic diseases
Burkina Faso
Medicine
Humans
Uganda
030212 general & internal medicine
health care economics and organizations
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
Community Health Workers
RDTs
business.industry
Diagnostic Tests
Routine
Environmental resource management
Workload
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Artemisinins
Malaria
Infectious Diseases
chemistry
Family medicine
Community health
opportunity cost
Female
Malaria in Highly Endemic Areas: Improving Control through Diagnosis
Artemisinin Combination Therapy
and Rectal Artesunate Treatment
ACTs
business
Zdroj: Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 63, S298-S305. Oxford University Press
Europe PubMed Central
ResearcherID
ISSN: 1537-6591
1058-4838
Popis: BACKGROUND Community health workers (CHWs) are members of a community who are chosen by their communities as first-line, volunteer health workers. The time they spend providing healthcare and the value of this time are often not evaluated. Our aim was to quantify the time CHWs spent on providing healthcare before and during the implementation of an integrated program of diagnosis and treatment of febrile illness in 3 African countries. METHODS In Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Uganda, CHWs were trained to assess and manage febrile patients in keeping with Integrated Management of Childhood Illness recommendations to use rapid diagnostic tests, artemisinin-based combination therapy, and rectal artesunate for malaria treatment. All CHWs provided healthcare only to young children usually
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