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Linking communities to formal health care providers through village health teams in rural Uganda: lessons from linking social capital
BACKGROUND: Community-based programmes, particularly community health workers (CHWs), have been portrayed as a cost-effective alternative to the shortage of health workers in low-income countries. Usually, literature emphasises how easily CHWs link and connect communities to formal health care servi...
Autores principales: | Musinguzi, Laban Kashaija, Turinawe, Emmanueil Benon, Rwemisisi, Jude T., de Vries, Daniel H., Mafigiri, David K., Muhangi, Denis, de Groot, Marije, Katamba, Achilles, Pool, Robert |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225547/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28077148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-016-0177-9 |
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