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Open AccessA realist synthesis of randomised control trials involving use of community health workers for delivering child health interventions in low and middle income countries
A key constraint to saturating coverage of interventions for reducing the burden of childhood illnesses in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) is the lack of human resources. Community health workers (CHW) ...
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Despite the undoubted importance of human resources to the functions of health systems, there is little consistency between countries in how human resource strategies are monitored and evaluated. This paper pr...
