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Lay Health Workers in Community-based Care and Management of Dementia: a ‘Pre’ and ‘Post’ Pilot Intervention Study in Southwestern Uganda

2021-08-24

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>The global need for efficient and cost-effective use of healthcare resources in low-income countries has led to the introduction of lay health workers (LHWs) as a link of the community to the formal health care services, especially in remote areas. As such, the LHWs perform a variety of tasks such as patient care, education, support for care delivery, and social...

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Literature Corpus work: ae69fae9-00c5-555b-8fd8-c6afb912fc28
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-827744/v1

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