Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) to improve child health: Key implementation challenges and potential solutions
Pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria together account for more than half of deaths among children ages 6 months to 5 years. New preventive interventions – such as the pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines – will help reduce this mortality burden. But ensuring prompt and effective treatment of these all-too-common illnesses (particularly among…
Maximizing effectiveness: Matching CHWs with CHW programs
When you hear the term ‘community health worker’ you may well have in mind quite a specific profile. You may picture someone doing community talks and going house-to-house giving behavior change counseling or perhaps your image includes dispensing or case-management functions, passing out condoms, oral contraceptives or oral rehydration salts….
The Scalability and Sustainability of CHW Programs
To be sure, many questions exist pertaining to the scalability and sustainability of CHW programs. Despite the presence of country examples, not a lot is known about large-scale CHW programs that have been sustained over a relatively long period of time. Documentation of these programs, including how they were scaled…
Welcome to CHW Central Conversations
Welcome to CHW Central! This site is designed to be a “community of practice,” which means it exists for you but also requires you and other members of the community to participate in order to make it valuable. In this ‘Conversations with…’ section of the site you will have the opportunity to…
Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix Operations Research
As we near the 2015 target for the Millennium Development Goals, vast challenges remain to providing accessible health care for underserved populations. The global public health community recognizes that we can’t reach key health goals without community health workers (CHW). Yet, we have few tools for assessing – let alone…