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.
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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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author Healey, Jessica
Wiah, S. Olasford
Horace, Jannie M.
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-79713812021-03-19 Liberia's Community Health Assistant Program: Scale, Quality, and Resilience Healey, Jessica Wiah, S. Olasford Horace, Jannie M. Majekodunmi, Dianah B. Duokie, Derry S. Glob Health Sci Pract Commentary 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. Global Health: Science and Practice 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7971381/ /pubmed/33727317 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00509 Text en © Healey et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00509
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