Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa
CONCLUSION: As important stakeholders in CHW programmes, exploring community acceptance, appreciation and support is critical in understanding the drivers of programme performance. Community acceptance of the CHWs in the Ekurhuleni health district was high. The perspective of the community was that the CHWs were quite effective. This was demonstrated when they reported changes in household behaviour with regard to improved access to care through early screening, referrals and improved management of chronic and other conditions.PMID:38525579 | DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2024.v114i2.1334
Source: South African Medical Journal - Category: African Health Authors: L S Thomas Y Pillay E Buch Source Type: research
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