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The lives of community health workers : local labor and global health in urban Ethiopia / Kenneth Maes.
- Maes, Kenneth
- Date
- 2017
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Physical description
xv, 171 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Contents
Introduction -- The problems facing community health workers at the turn of Ethiopia's alicha millennium -- Becoming a community health worker: a biosocial and historical perspective -- Transformations -- Some assembly required: community health worker recruitment and basic training -- To care and to suffer: community health work amid unemployment and food insecurity -- Where there is no labor movement -- Conclusion: Recommendations for action and research.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-163) and index.
Languages
- English
Subjects
- CaregiversEthiopiaAddis Ababa
- World healthSocial aspects
- Public health personnelEthiopiaAddis Ababa
- Home care servicesEthiopiaAddis Ababa
- HIV-positive personsServices forEthiopiaAddis Ababa
- Patient Caremethods
- Community Medicine
- Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
- Global Healthethics
- Community Health Workers
- Home Care Services
- Ethiopia
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJOFS.18Open shelves
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781611323603
- 1611323606
- 9781611323610
- 1611323614