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 |
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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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