Community Health Agents
The Community Health Agents are elected persons or volunteers within the community, who assume the role of mediators and facilitators in promoting healthy practices and the rights and duties of health protection. They act in coordination with the state's health staff and with other social stakeholders involved in the community. They eventually provide basic care and contribute to the linking and monitoring of the community's situation within the health surveillance system. They are trained for these functions by community health centers and other mechanisms facilitated by the Ministry of Health.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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