Jamaica - Community health workers
Community health workers (per 1,000 people)
The value for Community health workers (per 1,000 people) in Jamaica was 0.319 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 8 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.319 in 2016 and a minimum value of 0.233 in 2012.
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 |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 0.268 |
| 2012 | 0.233 |
| 2013 | 0.251 |
| 2014 | 0.255 |
| 2015 | 0.307 |
| 2016 | 0.319 |
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Health systems
