Community Health Workers: An Underappreciated Asset to Tackle NCD

Community Health Workers: An Underappreciated Asset to Tackle NCD

Highlights • NCD are an urgent social, economic, and health issue, and we need solutions at the community level to tackle them. • There is dearth of skilled health force to tackle the challenges posed by NCD. • Training and empowering community health workers present a secret weapon to combating NCD...

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Veröffentlicht in:Global heart 2016-12, Vol.11 (4), p.455-457
Hauptverfasser: Jarvis, Jordan D, Kataria, Ishu, Murgor, Mellany, Mbau, Lilian
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cardiovascular
Community Health Workers - education
Delivery of Health Care - manpower
Humans
Noncommunicable Diseases - prevention & control
Noncommunicable Diseases - therapy
Public Health
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • NCD are an urgent social, economic, and health issue, and we need solutions at the community level to tackle them. • There is dearth of skilled health force to tackle the challenges posed by NCD. • Training and empowering community health workers present a secret weapon to combating NCD.
ISSN:2211-8160
2211-8179
DOI:10.1016/j.gheart.2016.10.004