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Effects of Urban Violence on Primary Healthcare: The Challenges of Community Health Workers in Performing House Calls in Dangerous Areas.

Community health workers in developing countries usually perform house calls in degraded and violent territories. Thus, in this paper we study the effects of urban violence in the performance of CHWs in poorly developed territories, in order to understand the challenges of delivering care to dangero...

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Published in:Journal of Community Health Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 569 - 577
Main Authors: Bellas, Hugo Cesar, Jatobá, Alessandro, Bulhões, Bárbara, Koster, Isabella, Arcuri, Rodrigo, Burns, Catherine, Grindrod, Kelly, de Carvalho, Paulo Victor R.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2019
Subjects:
Brazil
Communities
Counseling
Home care services
Interviewing
Medical care
Metropolitan areas
Primary health care
Telephones
Psychosocial factors
Social support
Violence prevention
Community health workers
Health outcome assessment
Surveys
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