What is it about?
This study is about community health workers who work voluntarily to provide crucial primary health care services, including maternal and child health care in rural Nepal. While the importance of volunteers in the delivery of basic maternal and child healthcare has been recognised internationally, yet, their' perception of volunteering is limited. In this article, we explore the views and experiences of female community health volunteers (FCHVs) at three levels: individual, organisational and community.
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Why is it important?
We found that women from some of the poorest backgrounds can be highly motivated to volunteer. Yet, inadequate social and economic support across individual, organisational and community levels undermined this motivation.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. Also, although the data for this study is from 2014, the findings are still relevant to this date, and I feel relieved to be able to bring the issue of volunteering by women to the international platform.
Sarita Panday
University of Essex
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This page is a summary of: Exploring the motivations of female community health volunteers in primary healthcare provision in rural Nepal: A qualitative study, PLOS Global Public Health, August 2024, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003428.
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