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báo cáo sinh học:" Knowledge and communication needs assessment of community health workers in a developing country: a qualitative study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Knowledge and communication needs assessment of community health workers in a developing country: a qualitative study | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Knowledge and communication needs assessment of community health workers in a developing country a qualitative study Zaeem Haq 1 and Assad Hafeez2 Address 1Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communication Programs PAIMAN Islamabad Pakistan and 2Health Systems and Policy Unit Federal Ministry of Health Islamabad Pakistan Email Zaeem Haq - drzaeem@hotmail.com Assad Hafeez - az10@hotmail.com Corresponding author Open Access Published 21 July 2009 Received 12 March 2009 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 59 doi 10.1186 1478-4491-7-59 Accepted 21 July 2009 This article is available from http www.human-resources-health.cOm content 7 1 59 2009 Haq and Hafeez licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Primary health care is a set of health services that can meet the needs of the developing world. Community health workers act as a bridge between health system and community in providing this care. Appropriate knowledge and communication skills of the workers are key to their confidence and elementary for the success of the system. We conducted this study to document the perceptions of these workers on their knowledge and communication needs image building through mass media and mechanisms for continued education. Methods Focus group discussions were held with health workers and their supervisors belonging to all the four provinces of the country and the Azad Jammu Kashmir region. Self-response questionnaires were also used to obtain information on questions regarding their continued education. Results About four fifths of the respondents described their communication skills as .