Overview; Community-based health programmes in Indonesia: The challenge of supporting a national expansion; The current situation of village health worker programmes in China; Community health workers in Nepal; Community health work - India's experience; Community health workers in Tanzania; The State and democratization in primary health care: community participation and the village health worker programme in Zimbabwe; The limits of participation in health:
brigadista programmes in Nicaragua; The village context of Honduras' village health worker programme: 1980-84; References; Index.