The role of a structured community health worker network in achieving malaria elimination goals in the Dominican Republic: An impact evaluation amid COVID-19 disruptions
Nicole Michelén Ströfer, Natalia Tejada Bueno, María Yinet Santos Félix, Jose Luis Cruz Raposo, Justin T. Lana, Valérian Turbé, Harriet G. Napier, Justin M. Cohen, Nirbhay Kumar, Nirbhay Kumar · 2024
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Malaria in the Dominican Republic is close to wiped out, and local health workers who test and treat in homes form part of that push. Nicole Michelén Ströfer and co-authors weighed the network's work from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty-two, in a study from twenty twenty-four. The network served the three main city hot spots around Santo Domingo.
Counts came from weekly worker reports and state health data, split into spans before, during, and after COVID-19 shutdowns. Cases in the study areas fell from well over a thousand to just a handful across the span. Workers found and treated a large share of cases before the shutdowns, and a smaller share during them. The study also tracks how fast workers reached sick people and how the network bounced back.
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| CREATOR | Nicole Michelén Ströfer, Natalia Tejada Bueno, María Yinet Santos Félix, Jose Luis Cruz Raposo, Justin T. Lana, Valérian Turbé, Harriet G. Napier, Justin M. Cohen, Nirbhay Kumar, Nirbhay Kumar |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |