Community health agent (agente comunitário de saúde or ACS, in Portuguese language) is the title of a specific lay health care worker developed in Brazil...

Community health refers to non-treatment based health services that are delivered outside hospitals and clinics. Community health is a subset of public...

A community health worker (CHW) is a member of a community who provides basic health and medical care within their community, and is capable of providing...

found in the mixture have caused major health problems for many individuals who were exposed, and their children. Agent Orange was produced in the United States...

management of health services are all relevant. Other important sub-fields include environmental health, community health, behavioral health, health economics...

Vietnamese during strategic Agent Orange use. The effects of Agent Orange on the Vietnamese range from a variety of health effects, ecological effects...

Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs...

municipalities have 230,000 community health agents. PSF is now considered one of the main strategies of universal health care, service reorganization...

Land agent may be used in at least three different contexts. Traditionally, a land agent was a managerial employee who conducted the business affairs...

of malaria among the Brazilian Yanomami by educating Yanomami community health agents in how to diagnose and treat malaria. Between 1998 and 2001 the...