Alam, Khurshid; Tasneem, Sakiba; Oliveras, Elizabeth - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 3, pp. 511-515
Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are one approach to addressing the health workforce crisis in developing … countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, a pioneer in this area, uses female volunteer CHWs as core workers in its health … its community-based mother, newborn and child health interventions. However, the program experienced suboptimal …