http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/15/increasing-access-to-health-care-using-a-community-based-approach/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/15/increasing-access-to-health-care-using-a-community-based-approach/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:20:13 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=19979 Community Health Workers (CHWs), health assistants or lay health workers who provide a fundamental level of health care for residents in the community in which they live, have been shown to make a tremendous contribution to public health and community development. In Kisumu, Kenya, residents of Manyatta, an informal settlement with nearly 90,000 people that currently lacks any sort of government-run health facility, will soon benefit from an ongoing, wide-ranging CHW training, led by the Municipal Council of Kisumu’s Health Department, in collaboration with Cordaid Urban Matters, a Dutch development agency, and MCI, ably led by MCI's Public Health Specialist Beldina Opiyo-Omolo. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/15/increasing-access-to-health-care-using-a-community-based-approach/feed/ 0