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A continuous quality improvement intervention to improve the effectiveness of community health workers providing care to mothers and children: a cluster randomised controlled trial in South Africa

BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) play key roles in delivering health programmes in many countries worldwide. CHW programmes can improve coverage of maternal and child health services for the most disadvantaged and remote communities, leading to substantial benefits for mothers and childre...

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Autores principales:	Horwood, Christiane, Butler, Lisa, Barker, Pierre, Phakathi, Sifiso, Haskins, Lyn, Grant, Merridy, Mntambo, Ntokozo, Rollins, Nigel
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5470211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28610590 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-017-0210-7

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