Comments on: The Rising Tide of Community Health Workers http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/03/02/the-rising-tide-of-community-health-workers/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: JENNA http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/03/02/the-rising-tide-of-community-health-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-12270 JENNA Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:25:14 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=12289#comment-12270 Presently I am doing a literature review. Am looking for model programs and theories for government to change existing health systems from large hospitals to smaller, closer to community , and more ( quantity)primary health centers with community health workers being an active part of the system.

if anyone has any information on governments deciding to stop building hospitals and start replacing hospitals with p health centers please write to
theaidworker@gmail.com

]]> By: Prabhjot Singh http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/03/02/the-rising-tide-of-community-health-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-12206 Prabhjot Singh Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:31:06 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=12289#comment-12206 Great point, thanks for adding the additional info.
Prabhjot

]]> By: Andrew Kanter http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/03/02/the-rising-tide-of-community-health-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-12139 Andrew Kanter Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:39:33 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=12289#comment-12139 Thanks, Jot. I would point out that in both the cases of PIH and MVP, we have chosen to use technology to integrate the CHW program into the overall Primary Health Care system using an open source, standards-based approach involving OpenMRS. MVP’s system is called Millennium Global Village-Network (MGV-Net) and these are gaining a lot of attention as reproducible, locally-owned and scalable technology supports to the overall CHW program.

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