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Perceptions of health stakeholders on task shifting and motivation of community health workers in different socio demographic contexts in Kenya (nomadic, peri-urban and rural agrarian)

BACKGROUND: The shortage of health professionals in low income countries is recognized as a crisis. Community health workers are part of a “task-shift” strategy to address this crisis. Task shifting in this paper refers to the delegation of tasks from health professionals to lay, trained volunteers....

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Autores principales: Ochieng, Beverly Marion, Akunja, Edith, Edwards, Nancy, Mombo, Diana, Marende, Leah, Kaseje, Dan CO
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25079588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-S1-S4