"'I'm a Health Worker' - Abduaraman Gidi" made by IntraHealth International.
This cluster-randomised study used an intervention group of female community health volunteers to reduce blood pressure. The authors saw no significant changes in lifestyle factors, though use of antihypertensive medicine and exercise increased, while salt intake decreased.
A new quality improvement program to increase the knowledge and skills of community health on an American Indian Reservation related to diabetes was tested. The authors found that the program improved knowledge and management of diabetes.
This review looks at the perception of Brazilian community health agents about their work and outlines the difficulties and positive aspects in their daily work.
This article examines using community health workers to address the challenges of antimicrobial resistance in South Africa in terms of leadership and task shifting.
Using a questionnaire and semi-structured interview, this paper investigates the social representations of community health workers about prostrate cancer.
The Neno HIV programme, which incorporated community health workers, increased survival and retention rates compared to other distrits in Malawi.
This literature review examines the training of community health workers in low-income and middle-income counties with special attention to detailing current delivery implementation and evaluation of training provision.
This study looks at a group of community health workers know as Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) and their role in reducing the maternal mortality ratio in Nepal.
This brief discusses how to improve data quality in community health programmes and references the role of community health volunteers in data collection.
This is the first episode of the Review of Systems podcast, which is done in partnership with Harvard Center for Primary Care. The first guest is Shreya...