There is a growing movement among health care organizations to adopt the Community Health Worker (CHW) model into their system as a way to provide comprehensive care to patients and community members. At the same time there is uncertainty about how to implement the CHW model to achieve better patient outcomes, higher quality of care, and lower health care … [Read more...] about Best Practice Guidelines for Implementing and Evaluating Community Health Worker Programs in Health Care Settings
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CHW Program Functionality Improvement, Performance and Engagement: Operations Research Results from Zambia
The United Nations Millennium Project identified the large-scale training and deployment of community health workers (CHWs) as an important strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, programs involving CHWs are also known to be fraught with significant human resources challenges. The USAID Health Care Improvement Project (HCI) developed the … [Read more...] about CHW Program Functionality Improvement, Performance and Engagement: Operations Research Results from Zambia
Integrated Maternal and Newborn Care: Basic Skills Course
This document is part of a series that makes up the USAID/BASICS Newborn Health tool kit. The entire toolkit is comprised of a reference manual, technical presentations, facilitator’s guide, participant’s notebook, clinical logbook and tools for monitoring and evaluation. This document is the Clinical Logbook that can help health workers and training participants to maintain … [Read more...] about Integrated Maternal and Newborn Care: Basic Skills Course
BASICS Pediatric HIV Tool-kit: Orphan and Vulnerable Children Situational Analysis Interview Guide for Community Groups
This is an interview guide for CHWs, PLHA Support Group Members, Village Health Committees and Community Dialogue Groups. It is written for Rwanda, but can be adapted for use in other countries affected by HIV/AIDS. It specifically addresses pediatric HIV case identification, and referral and care at the community level for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). … [Read more...] about BASICS Pediatric HIV Tool-kit: Orphan and Vulnerable Children Situational Analysis Interview Guide for Community Groups
Community-Based Access to Injectables: An Advocacy Guide
This advocacy guide offers a strategy to facilitate the adoption of injectable contraceptives into CHW health service delivery programs. It expands on six steps that advocates can take to push for a policy change that would allow CHWs to provide injectables. … [Read more...] about Community-Based Access to Injectables: An Advocacy Guide