The Community Health Planning and Costing Tool (CHPCT)
Background There is growing evidence on the benefits of comprehensive packages of community health services as a key strategy to promote healthy behavior and improve access to high-impact maternal, newborn, and child health interventions from pregnancy to adolescence. However, countries do not have a way to determine the cost and…
CHWs Addressing Addiction
“Health for justice, justice for health” – these ideals outline the connection between health, human rights, and social justice. This is also the message the United Nations aims to promote through the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26th June 2019. The opioid epidemic has progressed drastically in…
Using the ECHO model to support CHWs
Imagine an online community, built intentionally to share expert public health knowledge and community-level experience with community health workers. What if this community connected rural CHWs with teams of expert CHWs and medical specialists, who mentored and coached them on the best ways to meet the social and health needs…
Companion Care: Creating and Maintaining Connections with Primary Care through a Community-Based Accompaniment Program
Context: As of 2018, an estimated 53,000 individuals were experiencing homelessness throughout Los Angeles County.i Nearly one-third describe their health as poor, and the American Public Health Association reports that 73% of individuals experiencing homelessness nationwide describe ≥ 1 unmet health need.ii Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) represent one effort to…
“Success lies within the community:” A comprehensive approach to sustainably strengthening the health system though a village health worker-centered program
Program Context: The Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) is a local non-governmental organization (NGO) serving over 250 villages around Jamkhed in rural Maharashtra, India. Each village has an average population of 1,000. When CRHP was founded in 1970, health indicators in the area were among the worst in India. The…