Determinants of Community Health Agent Functionality in Arsi Region
| dc.contributor.advisor | Pickering, Joyce(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hailemariam, Damen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-10T07:35:55Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T14:42:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-10T07:35:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T14:42:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1989-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A comparative case-control s tudy t o asses s the determinants of commun i t y hea 7th agent fun c t i ona Ii ty ~~as done in two Ars i Awrajas, in mid-southern Ethiopia. This was a census study which 'lias conducted by interviellling 347 CHAs from a structured questionnaire. The first objective was to describe the situation of the CHAs trained for the two Alvrajas up to the end of 1987. The other objecti\'e was to elucidate the determinants of CHA functionality by comparing the attributes of the functional CHAs (cases) with that of the non-functional ones(controls). An attempt was made to elucidate the determinants of these attributes. The findings revealed that only 25.8% of the CHAs interviewed were performing 50% or more of the activities mentioned in their job description . 45.6% of the CHAs were found to be performing no acti v ities at the time of the interview, i.e. a point prevalence of attrition rate of 45%. Comparing cases and controls showed that there was strong associations between CHA function and community support for the CHAs(RR = 72.4 with 95% CI 35 - 153). The other factor which was seen to be associated with function was supervision by health institutions (Odds of being functional when supervised being 28 with 95% CI of 15 - 53). Other factors ~'hich were found to be positively related to CHA functionality were: presence of hea lth post, provision of drugs and stationary to the CHA, and estab Ii shment of an act i ve hea I th commi ttee wi th the CHA be ing an execut i ve member • These f indings emphasize the importance of the prov i s i on of prope r commun i t y and hea I th system support for the success o f the community health services program. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/7528 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba Universty | en_US |
| dc.subject | Determinants of Community Health Agent | en_US |
| dc.title | Determinants of Community Health Agent Functionality in Arsi Region | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |