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Community health workers in Bolivia: Adapting to traditional roles in the Andean community

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Community health workers (CHW) constitute an outreach program where community members become involved in their health concerns and elect someone to be trained and administer primary health care. A major problem is that CHWs do not fit into leadership roles of either modern or traditional medicine. CHWs of Oruro, Bolivia, are discussed to examine the success of this program in which CHWs adapted to political, economic, and cultural patterns of Andean communities.

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  • Bastien, Joseph W., 1990. "Community health workers in Bolivia: Adapting to traditional roles in the Andean community," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 30(3), pages 281-287, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:30:y:1990:i:3:p:281-287
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    1. Riviere-Cinnamond, Ana, 2005. "Animal Health Policy and Practice: Scaling-up Community-based Animal Health Systems, Lessons from Human Health," PPLPI Working Papers 23775, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative.
    2. Standing, H. & Chowdhury, A. Mushtaque R., 2008. "Producing effective knowledge agents in a pluralistic environment: What future for community health workers?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(10), pages 2096-2107, May.

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