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Care Groups I: An Innovative Community-Based Strategy for Improving Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Resource-Constrained Settings

Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Thomas Davis and Pieter Ernst
Global Health: Science and Practice September 2015, 3(3):358-369; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00051
Henry Perry
aJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Melanie Morrow
bICF International (Maternal and Child Survival Program), Washington, DC, USA
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Sarah Borger
cFood for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
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Jennifer Weiss
dConcern Worldwide/US, New York, NY, USA
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Mary DeCoster
cFood for the Hungry, Washington, DC, USA
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Thomas Davis
eFeed the Children, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Pieter Ernst
fWorld Relief/Mozambique, Chokwe, Mozambique
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    Structure of a Typical Care Group Delivery Strategy

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    A Care Group Volunteer in Burundi shares a health message during a home visit. Care Group Volunteers make home visits to each woman for which they are responsible on a monthly or twice-monthly basis.

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    A Care Group Promoter from Mozambique meets with the volunteers she oversees to teach them new health promotion messages to share with their beneficiary mothers. The project provided each Care Group Promoter with a bicycle to facilitate supervision visits.

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Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Thomas Davis, Pieter Ernst
Global Health: Science and Practice Sep 2015, 3 (3) 358-369; DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00051

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Henry Perry, Melanie Morrow, Sarah Borger, Jennifer Weiss, Mary DeCoster, Thomas Davis, Pieter Ernst
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    • INTRODUCTION
    • WHAT ARE CARE GROUPS?
    • HOW DID CARE GROUPS EMERGE?
    • WHAT IS THE EXPERIENCE SO FAR WITH CARE GROUP IMPLEMENTATION?
    • OTHER EMERGING MODIFICATIONS OF THE CARE GROUP APPROACH
    • INTEGRATION OF CARE GROUPS INTO MINISTRY OF HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEMS
    • CARE GROUPS AS AN EXAMPLE OF PARTICIPATORY WOMEN’S GROUPS
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