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Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
3. Messaging management: for example by eight months a child should sit on its
own. If there is a delay the physician should be consulted.
4. Control access and sharing information with other physicians
5. Schedule appointment with physicians
6. Chat with physician online
7. View advisory content from physician: For obesity, asthma, epilepsy, etc.
12.4.3 Role of Paramedical Workers in Various Health Programs
1. Paramedics can effectively take the burden from physicians has been proved in
many studies. Even in the litigation-prone country like USA, non-physicians like
registered nurses are allowed to practice (Clayton 2009).
2. Psychological interventions delivered by non-specialist health workers are effective for the treatment of prenatal depression in low- and middle-income countries
(Chowdhary et al. 2014).
3. Structured and practical teaching and learning with minimal theory in resourcelimited setting had a positive, short-term effect on the competence of individual
staff to carry out an initial assessment and manage an acutely unwell patient
(Stanley et al. 2015).
4. Home visits by community health workers to improve identification of serious
illness and care seeking in newborns and young infants from low- and middleincome countries (Tripathy 2016).
FIGURE 12.17
Children growth chart visible both to the physician on the computer and to the parents in their mobile phones.
Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
3. Messaging management: for example by eight months a child should sit on its
own. If there is a delay the physician should be consulted.
4. Control access and sharing information with other physicians
5. Schedule appointment with physicians
6. Chat with physician online
7. View advisory content from physician: For obesity, asthma, epilepsy, etc.
12.4.3 Role of Paramedical Workers in Various Health Programs
1. Paramedics can effectively take the burden from physicians has been proved in
many studies. Even in the litigation-prone country like USA, non-physicians like
registered nurses are allowed to practice (Clayton 2009).
2. Psychological interventions delivered by non-specialist health workers are effective for the treatment of prenatal depression in low- and middle-income countries
(Chowdhary et al. 2014).
3. Structured and practical teaching and learning with minimal theory in resourcelimited setting had a positive, short-term effect on the competence of individual
staff to carry out an initial assessment and manage an acutely unwell patient
(Stanley et al. 2015).
4. Home visits by community health workers to improve identification of serious
illness and care seeking in newborns and young infants from low- and middleincome countries (Tripathy 2016).
FIGURE 12.17
Children growth chart visible both to the physician on the computer and to the parents in their mobile phones.