The Family Health Worker Revisited: A Five-Year Follow-up.

This paper describes the present position of family health workers who were trained and worked at a neighborhood health center during the past five years. Problems initially anticipated for such workers did not materialize but others have emerged: lack of self-esteem, lack of upward and lateral mobility, inadequate evaluation of the validity of their training and role, and to some extent paternalism. These are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]