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Retention and sustainability of community-based health volunteers' activities: A qualitative study in rural Northern Ghana

BACKGROUND: The shortage of formal health workers has led to the utilization of Community-Based Health Volunteers (CBHV) to provide health care services to people especially in rural and neglected communities. Community-based health volunteers have been effective partners in health care delivery at...

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Autores principales:	Chatio, Samuel, Akweongo, Patricia
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5352025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174002

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