Care Groups use volunteers to motivate mothers to adopt key MCH behaviors. The volunteers meet as a group every 2-4 weeks with a paid facilitator to learn new health promotion messages. Key ingredients of the approach include: peer-to-peer health promotion, selection of volunteers by the mothers, a manageable workload for the volunteers (no more than 15 households per … [Read more...] about Care Groups I: An Innovative Community-Based Strategy for Improving Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Resource-Constrained Settings
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Task Sharing Implant Insertion by Community Health Working: Not Just Can It Work, but How Might It Work Practically and With Impact in the Real World
Demonstrating that a health service, such as providing contraceptive implants, can be safely task shared to less highly trained workers is crucial but is only one step toward effective implementation at scale. Providers need dedicated time, enough clients, supplies, supervision, and other system support, allowing them to maintain their competency, confidence, and … [Read more...] about Task Sharing Implant Insertion by Community Health Working: Not Just Can It Work, but How Might It Work Practically and With Impact in the Real World
One million CHWs in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2015
During the past 10 years, community health workers (CHWs) have emerged as a focal point of international discussions on primary health-care systems. Although lay community-based health workers have been active for at least 60 years, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 prompted new discussion of how these workers can help to extend primary health care from facilities … [Read more...] about One million CHWs in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2015
What do we really know? An integrated analysis of current research on CHW training
CHWs provide critical health services to populations that lack access to services at health facilities. Well-trained and supplied CHWs can have positive impacts on health, but little is known about the adequacy, cost, or effectiveness of training models to prepare CHWs. This report analyzes key pieces of literature on CHW training and provides recommendations and next steps on … [Read more...] about What do we really know? An integrated analysis of current research on CHW training
Gender- a Missing Dimension in Human Resource Policy and Planning for Health Reforms
This article takes up the relatively neglected issue of gender in human resources policy and planning (HRPP), with particular reference to the health sector in developing countries. Current approaches to human resources lack any reference to gender issues. Meeting the health needs of women as major users and potential beneficiaries of health services is a key international … [Read more...] about Gender- a Missing Dimension in Human Resource Policy and Planning for Health Reforms