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The role of ‘hidden’ community volunteers in community-based health service delivery platforms: examples from sub-Saharan Africa

机译:隐藏的社区志愿者在基于社区的医疗服务提供平台中的作用:来自撒哈拉以南非洲的例子

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Community-based research on child survival in sub-Saharan Africa has focussed on the increased provision of curative health services by a formalised cadre of lay community health workers (CHWs), but we have identified a particular configuration, that deserves closer scrutiny. We identified a two-tiered CHW system, with the first tier being the lessor known or ‘hidden’ community/village level volunteers and the second tier being formal, paid CHWs, in Ethiopia, Mali, and Niger. Whilst the disease-focussed tasks of the formal CHW tier may be more amenable to classic epidemiological surveillance, we postulate that understanding the relationship between formalised CHWs and volunteer cadres, in terms of scope, location of practice and ratio to population, would be important for a comprehensive evaluation of child survival in these countries. We report on the findings from our joint qualitative and quantitative investigations, highlighting the need to recognise the ‘hidden’ contribution of volunteers. We need to better characterize the volunteers’ interaction with community-based and primary care services and to better understand ways to improve the volunteer systems with the right type of investments. This is particularly important for considering the models for scale-up of CHWs in sub-Saharan Africa.
机译:基于社区的关于撒哈拉以南非洲儿童生存的研究集中在正规非正规社区卫生工作者干部增加提供治疗性卫生服务方面,但是我们已经确定了一种特殊的配置,值得进一步研究。我们确定了一个分为两层的CHW系统,第一层是在埃塞俄比亚,马里和尼日尔,是众所周知的或“隐藏的”社区/村级志愿者,而第二层是正式的有偿CHW。虽然正规的CHW阶层以疾病为中心的任务可能更适合经典的流行病学监测,但我们假设,从范围,实践地点和人口比例方面,了解正规的CHW和志愿者干部之间的关系对于对这些国家儿童生存状况的综合评估。我们报告定性和定量联合调查的结果,强调需要认识到志愿者的“隐藏”贡献。我们需要更好地描述志愿者与社区和基层医疗服务之间的互动,并更好地了解以正确类型的投资来改善志愿者系统的方法。对于考虑在撒哈拉以南非洲扩大CHWs的模型而言,这一点尤其重要。

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