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Review
. 2018 Jul 30:362:k2813.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2813.

Improving health worker performance: an ongoing challenge for meeting the sustainable development goals

Alexander K Rowe  1 , Guilhem Labadie  2 , Debra Jackson  3 , Claudia Vivas-Torrealba  3 , Jonathon Simon  2
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Review

Improving health worker performance: an ongoing challenge for meeting the sustainable development goals

Alexander K Rowe et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Improving health worker performance is crucial to accelerating progress in helping children to survive and thrive, say Alexander K Rowe and colleagues

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The correlation between improvements in health worker practices and patient health outcomes from 10 studies on maternal and child health in Bangladesh, Guatemala, India, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Russia, and Sri Lanka
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