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© 1990 Oxford University Press

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Evaluation of a Village Health Worker Programme: The Use of Village Health Worker Retained Records

LOUISE KUHN and MERRICK ZWARENSTEIN

Centre for Epidemiological Research in Southern Africa, Medical Research Council PO Box 70, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa.

Kuhn L (Centre for Epidemiological Research in Southern Africa, Medical Research Council, PO Box 70, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa) and Zwarenstein M. Evaluation of a village health worker programme: The use of village health worker retained records. International Journal of Epidemiology 1990, 19: 685–692.

A village health worker (VHW) programme in a rural area in South Africa is evaluated, a year after the introduction of VHW-retained child record cards. The programme's success in promoting immunization and breastfeeding and the coverage of and contact with the community by the VHWs was investigated. A population survey on children under one year was matched to VHW records, showing that VHWs were reaching 70.8% of the target population. VHWs records, showing that VHWs were more likely to visit a child with a Road to Health Card (RTHC)and who was born in the village. VHWs generally visit mothers once a month and make contact with most children in their first month of life. Children born before the start of the new VHW programme were compared with those born after, using survival analysis techniques and data from the RTHC on the first year of life of all children under two. An increase in polio immunization coverage was detected but there was a drop in measles immunization coverage. We conclude that a VHW-retained child record for the first year of life plays a valuable role in ongoing health care evaluation.

Revised 1 March 1990


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