The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of today s most high-profile global health programs, including campaigns focused on specific diseases and broader efforts to strengthen health systems and achieve universal health care. Based on ethnographic work with Ethiopian women and men who provided home-based care in Addis Ababa during the early roll-out of antiretroviral therapies, this book explores what it actually means to become a community health worker in today s global health industry.
Drawing on the author s interviews with community...
The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of today s most high-profile global health programs, including ca...
The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of today s most high-profile global health programs, including campaigns focused on specific diseases and broader efforts to strengthen health systems and achieve universal health care. Based on ethnographic work with Ethiopian women and men who provided home-based care in Addis Ababa during the early roll-out of antiretroviral therapies, this book explores what it actually means to become a community health worker in today s global health industry.
Drawing on the author s interviews with community...
The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of today s most high-profile global health programs, including ca...
