Ghana - Community health workers

Community health workers (per 1,000 people)

The value for Community health workers (per 1,000 people) in Ghana was 0.195 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 10 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.563 in 2003 and a minimum value of 0.195 in 2008.

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 0.488
1999 0.556
2000 0.556
2001 0.556
2002 0.556
2003 0.563
2008 0.195

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Health systems