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`Barefoot doctors' in rural Georgia: The effect of peer selection on the performance of trained volunteers

dc.contributor.authorKay, Bonnie J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-04-07T18:35:31Z
dc.date.available2006-04-07T18:35:31Z
dc.date.issued1984en_US
dc.identifier.citationKay, Bonnie J. (1984)."`Barefoot doctors' in rural Georgia: The effect of peer selection on the performance of trained volunteers." Social Science &amp; Medicine 19(8): 873-878. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25025>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VBF-46958N9-CV/2/a147ebfe3ad8a906f855787e08ef0ef6en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25025
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=6505753&dopt=citationen_US
dc.description.abstractDoes volunteer selection by peers have a measurable effect on volunteer performance? This paper examines this question in the context of a field experiment which used community organizations as a means to select people to serve as Emergency Medical Coordinators (EMCs). Field sites were 36 rural Georgia communities with populations ranging from 150 to 1850. EMCs were trained in a 40 hour program as first responders to emergency incidents and as organizers of an emergency response system within their communities. Their performance in each of these roles was assessed by composite measures (a first aid performance index and an activity index) developed as part of the study. Each sponsor organization conducted the selection of EMCs for their respective communities. The process was monitored and assessed as either comprehensive, including the evaluation and elimination of candidates, or as unstructured where interested individuals self-volunteered. Performance scores were regressed on the selection process variable as well as a set of structural, predisposing and enabling variables. Peer selection was a statistically significant predictor of EMC performance as a first responder but not as a response system organizer. Implications of this result as well as the influence of other independent variables are discussed.en_US
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dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.title`Barefoot doctors' in rural Georgia: The effect of peer selection on the performance of trained volunteersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPublic Healthen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSociologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropology and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumSchool of Public Health, Department of Health Planning and Administration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.en_US
dc.identifier.pmid6505753en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25025/1/0000452.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(84)90405-2en_US
dc.identifier.sourceSocial Science &amp; Medicineen_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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