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. 2015 Dec 18;9(Suppl 10):S8.
doi: 10.1186/1753-6561-9-S10-S8. eCollection 2015.

Close to community health providers post 2015: Realising their role in responsive health systems and addressing gendered social determinants of health

Sally Theobald  1 , Eleanor MacPherson  1 , Rosalind McCollum  1 , Rachel Tolhurst  1
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Close to community health providers post 2015: Realising their role in responsive health systems and addressing gendered social determinants of health

Sally Theobald et al. BMC Proc. .

Abstract

Universal health coverage is gaining momentum and is likely to form a core part of the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda and be linked to social determinants of health, including gender; Close to community health providers are arguably key players in meeting the goal of universal health coverage through extending and delivering health services to poor and marginalised groups; Close to community health providers are embedded in communities and may therefore be strategically placed to understand intra household gender and power dynamics and how social determinants shape health and well-being. However, the opportunities to develop critical awareness and to translate this knowledge into health system and multi-sectoral action are poorly understood; Enabling close to community health providers to realise their potential requires health systems support and human resource management at multiple levels.

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