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Community health workers and breast cancer early detection in low- or middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review of the literature
- Abstract:
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Background Breast cancer is the leading cause of female mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Early detection of breast cancer, either through screening or early diagnosis initiatives, led by Community Health Workers (CHWs) has been proposed as a potential way to address the unjustly high mortality rates. We therefore document: (i) Where and how CHWs are currently deployed in this role; (ii) How CHWs are trained, including the content, duration, and outcom...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Global Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 2020
- Article number:
- e002466
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-17
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- ISSN:
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2059-7908
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1100876
- Local pid:
- pubs:1100876
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-21
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- O'Donovan et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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