Eliminating ghost workers and optimizing resources to strengthen Community Health Worker programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 41701657.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004929 and PMC identifier 12912599.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Although community health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in filling health workforce gaps, they remain inadequately compensated due to insufficient domestic financing. In this Policy Forum article, Temesgen Ayehu and colleagues discuss how elimination of ghost workers and healthcare reform in Sub-Saharan Africa can release funds to properly pay and integrate CHWs into civil service programs.
Medical subject headings
- Community Health Workers
- Community Health Services