The National Village Health Guide Scheme in India: lessons four decades later for community health worker programs today and tomorrow

Abstract Background Based in part on the success of India’s early community health worker (CHW) programs, the Government of India launched in 1977 a national CHW scheme—the Village Health Guides (VHGs)—to provide preventive, promotive, and basic curative care to rural populations. Although this prog...

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Hauptverfasser: Rachel J. Strodel, Henry B. Perry
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: BMC 2019-10-01
Schriftenreihe:Human Resources for Health
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Online Zugang:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12960-019-0413-1