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Does volunteer community health work empower women? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Women’s Development Army

Svea Closser, Harriet G. Napier, Kenneth Maes et al. · Health Policy and Planning · 2019 · 64 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Community Health, Health Promotion +17

Volunteers in Ethiopia’s women’s development army are more deprived and distressed than their neighbors: cross-sectional survey data from rural Ethiopia

Kenneth Maes, Svea Closser, Yihenew Tesfaye et al. · BMC Public Health · 2018 · 53 citations · Full text

Public Health, Community Health, Rural Health +16

Psychosocial distress among unpaid community health workers in rural Ethiopia: Comparing leaders in Ethiopia's Women's Development Army to their peers

Kenneth Maes, Svea Closser, Yihenew Tesfaye et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 2019 · 40 citations

Medicine, Community Health, Psychology +10

Breaking the silence on gendered harassment and assault of community health workers: an analysis of ethnographic studies

Svea Closser, Marium Sultan, Roosa Tikkanen et al. · BMJ Global Health · 2023 · 17 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Community Health, Sociology +10

Political connections and psychosocial wellbeing among Women's Development Army leaders in rural amhara, Ethiopia: Towards a holistic understanding of community health workers' socioeconomic status

Svea Closser, Kenneth Maes, Erick Gong et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 2020 · 13 citations · Full text

Medicine, Community Health, Rural Health +16