Practice question · Multiple choice
Programmes delivered by trained community health workers who live locally often outperform the same programme delivered by visiting professionals, with less clinical training. What is the local worker supplying?
Hints
- Ask what a visiting professional has more of, and what they cannot have at all.
- Advice only works if it is taken. Who does a wary household open the door to?
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B. Access and credibility the outsider cannot manufacture
Why
Expertise is not the binding constraint, reach is. A neighbour is trusted, knows which shop actually stocks what, and has not left when the funding ends. It is the community level doing work no amount of individual-level clinical skill substitutes for.
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