Book ID: CBB528353819

The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia (2016)

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Maes, Kenneth (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 188 pp.
Language: English

The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of today’s most high-profile global health programs, including campaigns focused on specific diseases and broader efforts to strengthen health systems and achieve universal health care. Based on ethnographic work with Ethiopian women and men who provided home-based care in Addis Ababa during the early roll-out of antiretroviral therapies, this book explores what it actually means to become a community health worker in today’s global health industry. Drawing on the author’s interviews with community health workers, as well as observations of their daily interactions with patients and supervisors, this volume considers what motivates them to improve the quality of life and death of the most marginalized people. The Lives of Community Health Workers also illuminates how their contributions at a micro level are intricately linked to policymaking and practice at higher levels in the field of global health.  It shows us that many of the challenges that community health workers face in their daily lives are embedded in larger social, economic, and political contexts, and it raises a resounding call for further research into their labour and health systems they inhabit.

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Review Henry B. Perry (2018) Review of "The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 228-230). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Huang, Hans Tao-Ming
Padamsee, Tasleem J.
Whiteside, Alan
De Rosis, Carolina
Klassen, Benjamin
Pépin, Jacques
Concepts
Public health
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Epidemics
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Africa
United States
South Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Botswana
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