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The role of health extension workers in improving utilization of maternal health services in rural areas in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Community health workers are widely used to provide care for a broad range of health issues. Since 2003 the government of Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained new cadres of community based health workers named health extension workers (HEWs). This initiative has been called the...

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Autores principales:	Medhanyie, Araya, Spigt, Mark, Kifle, Yohannes, Schaay, Nikki, Sanders, David, Blanco, Roman, GeertJan, Dinant, Berhane, Yemane
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23043288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-352

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