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Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system

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Main Author: Swartz, Alison
Other Authors: Colvin, Christopher J
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Public Health and Family Medicine 2015
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12199 Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system Swartz, Alison Colvin, Christopher J Public Health Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in health care in South Africa and similar countries, but relatively little is known about CHW motivations and experiences in the provision of care. This thesis considers these issues in three parts: 1. A protocol for a study of community health work in Khayelitsha, an impoverished peri-urban settlement near Cape Town, which is home to a number of ‘flagship’ public health interventions aimed at HIV/AIDS and TB. 2. A review of literature on community health work exploring naturalistic versus economistic discourses around care work, and the complex intersections of these discourses. 3. An ethnographic account of CHWs who provide a wide range of community-based care work in Khayelitsha. 2015-01-15T08:59:37Z 2015-01-15T08:59:37Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MPH http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12199 eng application/pdf Department of Public Health and Family Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town
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Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
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title Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
title_full Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
title_fullStr Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
title_full_unstemmed Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
title_short Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
title_sort community health workers in khayelitsha motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
topic Public Health
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12199
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