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The National Village Health Guide Scheme in India: lessons four decades later for community health worker programs today and tomorrow

BACKGROUND: Based in part on the success of India’s early community health worker (CHW) programs, the Government of India launched in 1977 a national CHW scheme—the Village Health Guides (VHGs)—to provide preventive, promotive, and basic curative care to rural populations. Although this program had...

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Autores principales: Strodel, Rachel J., Perry, Henry B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6819573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0413-1