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Liberia's Community Health Assistant Program: Scale, Quality, and Resilience

Liberia's community health program went from concept to nationwide scale in 4 years due to the Liberian Government's vision and its partnership with implementing organizations and donors. The next community health policy will tackle the unfinished agenda related to quality, resilience, and...

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Autores principales: Healey, Jessica, Wiah, S. Olasford, Horace, Jannie M., Majekodunmi, Dianah B., Duokie, Derry S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7971381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33727317
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00509
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Sumario:Liberia's community health program went from concept to nationwide scale in 4 years due to the Liberian Government's vision and its partnership with implementing organizations and donors. The next community health policy will tackle the unfinished agenda related to quality, resilience, and sustainability. Liberia's experience offers valuable lessons for innovating, and institutionalizing a compensated, effective cadre of community health assistants.