Policy and discourse on community health workers: A gender and equity analysis
Rosalind Steege, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Kate Hawkins, Daniel G. Datiko, Ireen Namakhoma, Korrie de Koning, Lilian Otiso, Maryse Kok, Mohsin Sidat, Rukshana Ahmed, Sabina Rashid, Sally Theobald (2016) Policy and discourse on community health workers: A gender and equity analysis, poster given at the 2016 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
The ways in which gender roles and relations shape access to healthcare and decision making in communities has been well documented. A growing body of evidence, including the REACHOUT consortium context analysis, has highlighted how gender roles and relations also shape the opportunities and challenges community health workers (CHWs) face in realising their unique role as an interface linking communities and health systems.
This project is funded by the European Union.