Botswana - Community health workers

Community health workers (per 1,000 people)

The value for Community health workers (per 1,000 people) in Botswana was 0.083 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.731 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.083 in 2009.

Definition: Community health workers include various types of community health aides, many with country-specific occupational titles such as community health officers, community health-education workers, family health workers, lady health visitors and health extension package workers.

Source: World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Statistics, OECD, supplemented by country data.

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Year Value
1998 0.442
1999 0.454
2000 0.731
2001 0.466
2002 0.482
2003 0.479
2005 0.494
2006 0.485
2008 0.229
2009 0.083

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Health systems