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1 online resource (189 pages) |
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Anthropology and Global Public Health |
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Anthropology and global public health.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations Used in the Text; Introduction; The Labor and Lives of Community Health Workers; Morality, Power, and Policy-Relevant Research; Studying a CHW Program: A Methodological Overview; 1 Community Health Worker Payment and Participation in Addis Ababa's Alicha Millennium; The Global Sustainability Doctrine Meets Ethiopia; Pushing for Change or Following Directions?; Conclusion; 2 Becoming a Community Health Worker: A Biosocial and Historical Perspective; Transformations |
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At That Time, There Was a RevolutionAnother Life-Altering Infection; From Leprosarium to Antiretroviral Center of Excellence; Conclusion; 3 Some Assembly Required: Community Health Worker Recruitment and Basic Training; Recruiting CHWs; What If She Is Planning to Fly Abroad?; Don't Think That You Will Get Something; ... Except Mental Satisfaction; The Moral Economy of CHWs; Training Rituals; CHW Orientation and Training in Three Dimensions; Conclusion; 4 To Care and to Suffer: Community Health Work Amid Unemployment and Food Insecurity; Getting Close; Reconciliation; Confronting Death |
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Providing Good Care and Seeking Socioeconomic ProgressThere Is No Happiness with Me; I Brought Them into a Life They Don't Want; My Sadness Comes When I Have a Fight with My Husband; I Didn't Do Anything for Myself; The Social, Economic, and Emotional Impacts of Unpaid Community Health Work; 5 Where There Is No Labor Movement; How Can I Tell Sister Meheret?; Everybody Complained; Articulating a "We"; Legitimizing Self-Interest; CHW Labor Relations and Policy-Relevant Research; Conclusion; Conclusion: Listening to Community Health Workers: Recommendations for Action and Research |
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Recruit Strong CHWs and Provide Supportive SupervisionEmphasize the Humanity of Patients, Quality of Life, and Empathic Care; Build Solid Relationships across Social Dividing Lines; Finance the Creation of Secure CHW Jobs; Strengthen CHW Participation in Processes of Social Change; Conduct Better Research and More of It; United, Spider Webs Can Tie Up a Lion; References; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Caregivers -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
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Public health personnel -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
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Home care services -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
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HIV-positive persons -- Services for -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
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Caregivers
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Caregivers
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HIV-positive persons -- Services for
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Home care services
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Public health personnel
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| SUBJECT |
Ethiopia |
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Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315400778 |
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1315400774 |
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