| growth monitoring: the role of community health volunteers. | a community volunteer programme was initiated in rural jamaica in may 1990. the main aim of the programme was to monitor the growth of children less than 36 months of age through community health volunteers (chvs) and improve their nutritional status. at the end of the second year the programme was evaluated to determine its effectiveness. the results of the evaluation indicated that almost all (95.6%) of the children were covered by the chvs. in addition the participation rate was high (78.5%). ... | 1995 | 7716251 |