Learning from the Brazilian Community Health Worker Model in North Wales

Health policymakers in many countries are looking at ways of increasing health care coverage by scaling up the deployment of community health workers. In this commentary, we describe the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil’s scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting wit...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Christopher David, Noyes, Jane, Haines, Andy, Thomas, Kathrin, Stockport, Chris, Ribas, Antonio Neves, Harris, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3681592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23764067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-25
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spelling pubmed-36815922013-06-14 Learning from the Brazilian Community Health Worker Model in North Wales Johnson, Christopher David Noyes, Jane Haines, Andy Thomas, Kathrin Stockport, Chris Ribas, Antonio Neves Harris, Matthew Global Health Commentary Health policymakers in many countries are looking at ways of increasing health care coverage by scaling up the deployment of community health workers. In this commentary, we describe the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil’s scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting with a pilot project in North Wales. BioMed Central 2013-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3681592/ /pubmed/23764067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-25 Text en Copyright © 2013 Johnson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Learning from the Brazilian Community Health Worker Model in North Wales
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3681592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23764067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-25
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