Community engagement for health system resilience: evidence from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
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Community-based health care is an essential component of a resilient health system: evidence from Ebola outbreak in Liberia
BACKGROUND Trained community health workers (CHW) enhance access to essential primary health care services in contexts where the health system lacks capacity to adequately deliver them. In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak further disrupted health system function. The objective of this study is to examine the value of a community-based health system in ensuring continued treatment of child illnesses ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Planning
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0268-1080,1460-2237
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czz174