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Using Mobile Phones To Improve Community Health Workers Performance In Low-And-Middle-Income Countries, Anam Shahil Feroz, Rawshan Jabeen, Sarah Saleem

Community Health Sciences

Background: In low-and-middle-income countries community health workers are the core component of the PHC system as they act as a liaison between the communities and the healthcare facilities. Evidence suggests that the services offered by these workers have helped in the decline of maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates and the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. However, the coverage and the overall progress towards achieving the SDG targets is very sluggish. The recent consensus concerning this current pace of progress, is that it relates to financial and human resources constraints. CHWs are overburdened as they are expected to …