Training, supervision and performance of Community Health Workers in the delivery of ear and hearing care to 321 community members in rural Uganda.

James O'DonovanDoreen NakkuDaniel NyanziEsther NakasaggaRebecca HamalaAllan S NamandaKenneth KabaliNiall WintersShelly ChadhaMahmood F Bhutta

Published in: Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery (2021)

Trained Community Health Workers can play an important role in delivering ear and hearing services. Future work should look to explore this model in other contexts and/or compare it to other models of service delivery.

Keyphrases

healthcare
mental health
hearing loss
palliative care
south africa
primary care
current status
affordable care act
resistance training
quality improvement
virtual reality
chronic pain
body composition