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Unintended Consequences of Community Health Worker Programs in South Africa

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ID4664068
AutoresCatherine Van De Ruit (0000-0003-2388-9861, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume29
Fascículo11
Páginas1535-1548
Data de publicação2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732319857059
PMID31274060
OpenAlexW2953454444
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas91

Task shifting from trained clinicians to community health workers (CHWs) is a central, primary health care strategy advocated by global health policy planners in resource-poor settings where trained health professionals are scarce. The evidence base for the efficacy of these programs, however, is limited-in particular, research that identifies their potential unintended consequences. Based on sustained ethnographic study of CHWs working for AIDS projects in South Africa at the height of the country's AIDS epidemic, this article identifies how structural and local factors produced unintended consequences for CHW programs. These consequences were (a) CHWs moonlighting for multiple organizations, (b) CHWs freelancing in communities without regulation, and (c) adverse patient outcomes resulting from uncoordinated care. These consequences stemmed from structural elements of a bureaucratically weak health system and from local grassroots dynamics that jeopardized long-term CHW program sustainability and eroded national health goals

Economic growth · Grassroots · Health care · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Sustainability · Unintended consequences · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing

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