Community Health Workers - Key messages

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Global Health Workforce Alliance

Community Health Workers - Key messages

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Number of pages: 2
Publication date: June 2010

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A global consultation of programme managers, policy makers and experts was convened by the Alliance in April 2010 in Montreux, Switzerland, to review the recommendations of a systematic review on Community Health Workers (CHWs), share experiences, and develop broad agreement on key messages for countries to use to integrate CHWs into their national health workforce.

Key messages were identified around the following three areas: the planning, production and deployment; attraction and retention; and performance management of CHW.