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Community health workers / entrepreneurs / mentors / volunteers could improve health outcomes

By Hicbd
Fri Jul 12 2019 6:57 pm

"Last Mile Health partners with governments to design, scale, and advocate for national networks of community health workers (CHWs). These CHWs are people with a middle or high school level education who are employed in their own villages and given training and medicines enabling them to bring health care to the doorsteps of their neighbors. CHWs are paired with clinically-trained supervisors, including nurses and physician assistants, who provide CHWs with one-on-one mentorship to improve the quality of care they provide while strengthening the clinics to which CHWs refer patients."

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/07/12/740847647/how-one-community-brought-child-mortality-down-from-154-to-7-per-1-000-live-birt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Panjabi#Last_Mile_Health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_health_worker
https://khn.org/news/in-l-a-community-health-workers-are-part-of-the-medical-team/

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Healthcare Global Poverty Community Development / Building / Loneliness Public Health U.S. Healthcare Volunteering Mental Health Services / Illnesses U.S. Poverty Infant Mortality Global Public Health Mental Health Global Vision / Eye Care / Blindness Maternal Health / Motherhood / Postpartum Care Mentorship / Peer Circles Global Health Nonprofit / NGO Idea

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