Maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers

Community health workers in low‐ and middle‐income country primary health care systems are well suited to perform essential functions on the frontlines of Covid‐19 pandemic responses. However, clear and coordinated guidance, updated infection control training, and reliable access to personal protect...

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Autores principales: Palafox, Benjamin, Renedo, Alicia, Lasco, Gideon, Palileo‐Villanueva, Lia, Balabanova, Dina, McKee, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32985024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13498
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description Community health workers in low‐ and middle‐income country primary health care systems are well suited to perform essential functions on the frontlines of Covid‐19 pandemic responses. However, clear and coordinated guidance, updated infection control training, and reliable access to personal protective equipment must be ensured in order to deploy them safely and effectively. With these additional responsibilities, community health workers must also be supported to ensure that hard‐fought gains in population health, including progress on non‐communicable diseases, are sustained throughout the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-75371602020-10-07 Maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers Palafox, Benjamin Renedo, Alicia Lasco, Gideon Palileo‐Villanueva, Lia Balabanova, Dina McKee, Martin Trop Med Int Health Editors’ Choice Community health workers in low‐ and middle‐income country primary health care systems are well suited to perform essential functions on the frontlines of Covid‐19 pandemic responses. However, clear and coordinated guidance, updated infection control training, and reliable access to personal protective equipment must be ensured in order to deploy them safely and effectively. With these additional responsibilities, community health workers must also be supported to ensure that hard‐fought gains in population health, including progress on non‐communicable diseases, are sustained throughout the pandemic. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-10-12 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7537160/ /pubmed/32985024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13498 Text en © 2020 The Authors Tropical Medicine & International Health Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers
title Maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers
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title_fullStr Maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers
title_full_unstemmed Maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers
title_short Maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers
title_sort maintaining population health in low‐ and middle‐income countries during the covid‐19 pandemic: why we should be investing in community health workers
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32985024
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