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- Title
Cholera Prevention Training Materials for Community Health Workers, Haiti, 2010-2011.
- Authors
Rajasingham, Anu; Bowen, Anna; O'Reilly, Ciara; Sholtes, Kari; Schilling, Katie; Hough, Catherine; Brunkard, Joan; Domercant, Jean Wysler; Lerebours, Gerald; Cadet, Jean; Quick, Robert; Person, Bobbie
- Abstract
Stopping the spread of the cholera epidemic in Haiti required engaging community health workers (CHWs) in prevention and treatment activities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborated with the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population to develop CHW educational materials, train >1,100 CHWs, and evaluate training efforts.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HAITI; CHOLERA; EPIDEMICS; PUBLIC health personnel; COMMUNITY health services; PREVENTIVE medicine; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.)
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011, Vol 17, Issue 11, p2162
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1711.110806