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01-12-2013 | Commentary
Learning from the Brazilian Community Health Worker Model in North Wales
Authors:
Christopher David Johnson, Jane Noyes, Andy Haines, Kathrin Thomas, Chris Stockport, Antonio Neves Ribas, Matthew Harris
Published in:
Globalization and Health
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Issue 1/2013
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Abstract
Health policymakers in many countries are looking at ways of increasing health care coverage by scaling up the deployment of community health workers. In this commentary, we describe the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil’s scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting with a pilot project in North Wales.