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Outreach services to improve access to health care in South Africa: lessons from three community health worker programmes

INTRODUCTION: In South Africa, there are renewed efforts to strengthen primary health care and community health worker (CHW) programmes. This article examines three South African CHW programmes, a small local non-governmental organisation (NGO), a local satellite of a national NGO, and a government-...

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Autores principales:	Nxumalo, Nonhlanhla, Goudge, Jane, Thomas, Liz
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Co-Action Publishing 2013
Materias:	Building New Knowledge Supplement
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23364101 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v6i0.19283

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