Optimising scale and deployment of community health workers in Sierra Leone: a geospatial analysis
Abstract
Little is known about strategies for
optimising the scale and deployment of community health
workers (CHWs) to maximise geographic accessibility of
primary healthcare services.We used data from a national georeferenced
census of CHWs and other spatial datasets in Sierra Leone
to undertake a geospatial analysis exploring optimisation
of the scale and deployment of CHWs, with the aim of
informing implementation of current CHW policy and future
plans of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.