Working in effective partnerships – insights into performance of community health systems
Maryse C Kok, Jacqueline EW Broerse, Sally Theobald, Hermen Ormel, Marjolein Dieleman and Miriam Taegtmeyer (2016) Working in effective partnerships – insights into performance of community health systems, poster given at the 2016 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
Health systems are social institutions, in which performance is determined by transactional processes between different actors. Relationships between communities and the primary health care level need to be strong in order to build effective partnerships that can contribute to resilient and responsive health systems. The performance of community health workers (CHWs) is of particular importance, in the light of their unique intermediary position between communities and actors in the health sector, such as supervisors, nursing and clinical staff and management.
This project is funded by the European Union.