"'I'm a Health Worker' - Abduaraman Gidi" made by IntraHealth International.
Community health workers, or Village Health Teams (VHTs) as they are referred to un Uganda, play a vital role in improving access to community-based health services. This project aimed to understand the versatile role played by VHTs as part of the community and as care providers. It focused on sensitive services, such as reproductive health and HIV care.
The uptake of cervical cancer screening services is low among South Asian women. Multimedia interventions facilitated by community health workers (CHW) offer an approach to improve screening service utilization rates. This randomized controlled pilot study evaluated the feasibility and preliminary effects of a CHW-led intervention on improving cervical cancer screening uptake in an...
Community based mass drug administration (MDA) has been used as strategy for countering neglected tropical diseases. However, there is little known about what combination of community medicine distributor workload is ideal for attaining high treatment rates (over 65-75%) in villages. This study involved tracking and evaluating routine community-based MDA in the Mayuge district of Uganda. The...
Hypertension or raised blood pressure is a leading risk factor for mortality. This study in western Kenya investigated the efficiency of community health workers in utilizing behavioral communication strategies and smartphone technologies to improve the linkage of individuals with raised BP to a hypertension program. It also looked at the ability of the program to significantly reduce BP.
This study discusses the development of a tool designed to help non-clinical cadres evaluate the quality of care delivered by community health workers. The content of the tool was derived through multiple sources of information including interactions with district managers, national training manuals and an exploratory study that included observations of 70 community health workers undertaking...
Community health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in provision of maternal and newborn health (MNH) services in low- and middle-income settings. However, a better understanding of the roles CHWs play in each setting: services, responsibilities, training duration and type of renumeration. This study presents information on CHWs providing MNH services in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Malawi and...
This study assessed knowledge about zika virus among communities in the Dominican Republic. It highlights Charlas, informal discussions lead by community health workers, as the most common source of information about zika virus.
Ugandan villages experience a high fertility rate and a significant unmet need for contraception. The Ugandan Village Project’s community health worker-based family planning program has shown promise in addressing these issues. This study presents results from a household survey conducted in rural eastern Ugandan in 2015 and highlights opportunities for addressing contraception requirements...
Each year, the Division of Global Health Equity (GHE) hosts an "Introduction to Global Health Equity" course for resident physicians in the Doris and Howard Hiatt GHE Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), affiliated with Harvard Medical School. During the 2018 trip, Dr. Palazuelos had the opportunity to meet ...
The purpose of this study was to apply the RE-AIM framework to evaluate data obtained from focus group discussions to generate information on the availability of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk interventions through the COACH program in Nebraska. The COACH approach involves interventions provided by nurses and community health workers