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ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2022

Commentary on "Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia," by James Wintrup.

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Edward Davenport, Scott S Lee

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nava AshrafDepartment of Economics, LSE, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK. Electronic address: n.ashraf1@lse.ac.uk.
Oriana BandieraDepartment of Economics and STICERD, LSE, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK. Electronic address: o.bandiera@lse.ac.uk.
Edward DavenportDepartment of Economics, MIT, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA. Electronic address: edav@mit.edu.
Scott S LeeDepartment of Medicine and Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 450, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA. Electronic address: ssl@mail.harvard.edu.

Funding

Vanderbilt Scholars in T4 Translational Research (V-STTaR) ProgramK12HL137943 · NHLBI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI KRIPALANI, SUNIL, ROUMIE, CHRISTIANNE L. · 2017 to 2021
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

"Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia" (Wintrup, 2021) raises important questions about the uses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and uses our RCT embedded in Zambia's National Community Health Assistant (CHA) Program (Ashraf et al., 2020a) as a case study to illustrate the pitfalls of the RCT methodology and especially its potential to do harm. This commentary clarifies the misunderstandings at the heart of Wintrup (2021)'s critique.

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Community Health WorkersHumansZambiaCommunity health workersGlobal healthRCTsZambia

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PMID34893356
PMCPMC8967372

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