Since its inception the Suraj network has provided nearly 106,943 IUCDs in its catchment area including 30% through vouchers and 45% are to the women, referred by field worker mobilization (FWM).
However, as the developed country health workforce diversifies in remote and rural areas, workforce planners may benefit from utilizing developing country models for worker substitution, mobilization, recruitment, and retention.
EmONC package is composed of a maternal and neonatal health pack, enhanced trainings of health workers and community mobilization.
These mediating variables reflect the expanding interpersonal, social and political space that sex workers inhabit as mobilization unfolds.
The promotion of preventive newborn care practices through home visits by community health workers and community mobilization has been shown to reduce newborn deaths in high mortality settings in Asia [ 37].
The data from the study suggest that Diarrhea Pack is acceptable in the community for the treatment of diarrhea and it is feasible to introduce Diarrhea Pack for the treatment of diarrhea in health systems at scale through community health workers and social mobilization.
Thousands of social mobilization field workers, trained by CGPP and UNICEF, conducted SMNet activities at different levels.
A BCC strategy needs to be developed for influencing: behavior of health workers and managers; resource mobilization; and demand creation for the services.
Outreach activities leading up to the campaign include the involvement of local authorities, traditional and religious leaders; interpersonal communication at the community level by social workers and volunteers; community mobilization; and the broadcast of TV and radio spots.
Dr. Henk Bekedam said he was encouraged by the trend in China, where he is the W.H.O.'s representative in Beijing, and by that government's political commitment and mobilization of health workers to fight the new respiratory disease.
