Addressing the “weakest link” in community health worker programmes: a community-based participatory research approach towards the design, implementation and evaluation of a mobile-facilitated blended supervision programme in Uganda

Thesis

By 2030 it is estimated there will be a global shortage of 18 million health workers, which will disproportionately affect “low- and middle-income countries” (LMICs). As a result, a cadre of lay-health workers, commonly referred to as Community Health Workers (CHWs), have been proposed to help address this gap in the global health workforce. Yet, despite the documented successes of existing CHW programmes, many programmatic challenges remain, one of which is supervision. This has resulted...

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Authors: O'Donovan, JJ

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-yjez2qpxg
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: village health team; community health worker; education; Mukono; eLearning; WhatsApp; supervision; medical education; digital health; CHW; mHealth; training; global health; Uganda
• Subjects: Public health; Medical care; Health; Wireless communication systems in medical care; Education; Rural health; Mobile communication systems in education; World health