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" Costing Analysis of a Pilot Community Health Worker Program in Rural Nepal. "
Nepal, Prajwol; Schwarz, Ryan; Citrin, David; Thapa, Aradhana; Acharya, Bibhav; Acharya, Yubraj; Aryal, Anu; Baum, Aaron; Bhandari, Ved; Bhatt, Laxman; Bhattarai, Dipak; Choudhury, Nandini; Dangal, Binod; Dhimal, Meghnath; Dhungana, Santosh Kumar; Gauchan, Bikash; Halliday, Scott; Kalaunee, SP; et al.
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911791
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Costing Analysis of a Pilot Community Health Worker Program in Rural Nepal. [Article]\ Nepal, Prajwol; Schwarz, Ryan; Citrin, David; Thapa, Aradhana; Acharya, Bibhav; Acharya, Yubraj; Aryal, Anu; Baum, Aaron; Bhandari, Ved; Bhatt, Laxman; Bhattarai, Dipak; Choudhury, Nandini; Dangal, Binod; Dhimal, Meghnath; Dhungana, Santosh Kumar; Gauchan, Bikash; Halliday, Scott; Kalaunee, SP; et al.
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2020
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Community health workers (CHWs) are essential to primary health care systems and are a cost-effective strategy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nepal is strongly committed to universal health coverage and the SDGs. In 2017, the Nepal Ministry of Health and Population partnered with the nongovernmental organization Nyaya Health Nepal to pilot a program aligned with the 2018 World Health Organization guidelines for CHWs. The program includes CHWs who: (1) receive regular financial compensation; (2) meet a minimum education level; (3) are well supervised; (4) are continuously trained; (5) are integrated into local primary health care systems; (6) use mobile health tools; (7) have consistent supply chain; (8) live in the communities they serve; and (9) provide service without point-of-care user fees. The pilot model has previously demonstrated improved institutional birth rate, antenatal care completion, and postpartum contraception utilization. Here, we performed a retrospective costing analysis from July 16, 2017 to July 15, 2018, in a catchment area population of 60,000. The average per capita annual cost is US
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