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Community health workers in Canada and other high-income countries: A scoping review and research gaps

Abstract

ObjectivesCommunity health workers (CHWs) have been deployed to provide health-related services to their fellow community members and to guide them through often complex health systems. They help address concerns about how marginalized populations in many countries experience health inequities that are due, in part, to lack of appropriate primary health care services, possibly resulting in inappropriate use of higher-cost health services or …

Authors

Najafizada SAM; Bourgeault IL; Labonte R; Packer C; Torres S

Journal

Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. e157–e164

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

March 2015

DOI

10.17269/cjph.106.4747

ISSN

0008-4263