The last twenty years have seen a great upsurge of interest in the role of community health workers (CHWs) as an essential element in the provision of primary health care throughout the developing world. Tanzania has supported a programme of primary care involving CHWs since 1969. This book, based upon extensive surveys and interviews carried out by the authors in the period 1980-83, details the successes and shortcomings of the programme, and the way the lessons learned will be applied in the future. It is th e product of a collaboration between the Muhimbili Medical Centre in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Similar programmes in other African countries are also reviewed, and the book should be of interest to all those concerned with primary care and in particular with the implementation of large scale CHW programmes. The Hon Dr A Chiduo, the Tanzanian Minister of Health, has written the foreword. Readership: professionals concerned with implementing primary health care in Tanzania and other developing countries; professionals in aid agencies; undergraduate and postgraduate students of public health.
- ISBN10 0192616188
- ISBN13 9780192616180
- Publish Date July 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 216
- Language English