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Guidelines for management of community health workforce 2016
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Description
The first section is the introduction. The purpose of this section is to give the structural outline of the document. It is under this section that the justification (the why?) of the guidelines is presented. The other sub-sections include a brief description of how the guidelines were developed and the intended users of the guidelines. The section ends with an extended definition of a community health worker. This includes the WHO definition and lists the roles and functions of the Community Health Workers (CHWs).