Table 3. Characteristics of 30 CHWs from 23 countriesa reporting implementation of CCM of pneumonia, by geographic region and work setting.
| Characteristic | Work from health facility |
Work from community only |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia | Africa | Total | Asia | Africa | Total | Asia | Africa | Total | |||
| Total (n = CHW cadre) | 11 | 8 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 30 | ||
| Average education of worker | |||||||||||
| Primary school or less | 2 | 1b | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 12 | ||
| Middle school | 0 | 4b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | ||
| High school | 3 | 2b | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||
| Graduate/professional | 6 | 0b | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||
| Duration of training | |||||||||||
| < 2 weeks | 0 | 3b | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||
| 2–12 weeks | 4 | 2b | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | ||
| 4–12 months | 0 | 1b | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| > 1 year | 7 | 1b | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Work sitec | |||||||||||
| Home | 5 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 21 | ||
| Community building | 5 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 14 | ||
| Government health facility | 9 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 13 | ||
| Private health facility | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| NGO health facility | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | ||
CCM, community case management; CHW, community health worker, NGO, nongovernmental organization. a Countries with one CHW: Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, and Togo (in Africa); Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Nepal and Pakistan (in Asia). Countries with two CHWs: Madagascar and Uganda (in Africa); Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Tajikistan (in Asia). b Missing data from one country. c Multiple responses possible.