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Community Health Workers: An Underappreciated Asset to Tackle NCD

Authors
  • Jordan D. Jarvis
  • Ishu Kataria
  • Mellany Murgor
  • Lilian Mbau

Abstract

Highlights

  • NCD are an urgent social, economic, and health issue, and we need solutions at the community level to tackle them.
  • There is dearth of skilled health force to tackle the challenges posed by NCD.
  • Training and empowering community health workers present a secret weapon to combating NCD.
Published on Dec 1, 2016