Community health workers
Subtitle: the Tanzanian experience
By: Kris Heggenhougen ... [et al.] ; with special assistance from M.P. Mandara ; forword by A.D. Chiduo.
Contributors: Heggenhougen, Kris.
Series: Oxford medical publications
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Community health aides -- Tanzania.; Community health services -- Tanzania.; Community Health Aides -- Tanzania.; Community Health Services -- Tanzania.; Primary Health Care -- methods.
Description: This book profiles the history, the present condition, and the future prospects of Tanzanian community health workers. Based on collaborative research and extensive surveys and interviews conducted by the authors from 1980 to 1983, this comprehensive work details the successes and shortcomings of Tanzania's program of primary health care, and provides a valuable example for the establishment of similar, and particularly larger, health care programs in East and South Africa and throughout the developing nations of the world. Primary health care professionals and students of public health administration will value this timely assessment of the state of Tanzania's community health services.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 175-202.
Includes index.