This is chapter 2 of Engaging Communities for Improving Mothers’ and Children’s Health: Reviewing the Evidence of Effectiveness in Resource-Constrained Settings. This chapter is a review of community–based primary health care programs, projects, and research studies that aimed to improve maternal, neonatal, and child health. Specifically, this chapter covers maternal … [Read more...] about A comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 2. maternal health findings
Program Evaluation
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 1. rationale, methods and database description
This is chapter 1 of Engaging Communities for Improving Mothers’ and Children’s Health: Reviewing the Evidence of Effectiveness in Resource-Constrained Settings. This chapter covers the rationale, methods, and database used for the review presented in future chapters. … [Read more...] about Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 1. rationale, methods and database description
Practitioner Expertise to Optimise Community Health Systems: Harnessing Operational Insight
This newly released report, titled ‘Practitioner Expertise to Optimise Community Health Systems: Harnessing Operational Insight’ examines how CHWs can successfully be integrated into national health systems, subsequently contributing towards efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage. By using a number of case studies from six organisations (Hope Through Health, Last Mile … [Read more...] about Practitioner Expertise to Optimise Community Health Systems: Harnessing Operational Insight
Zambia’s Community Health Assistants (CHAs)
This brief is an outline of Zambia’s community health assistant (CHA) program detailing the impact of a nationwide salaried cadre of CHWs. The report includes how CHAs are recruited, trained, and deployed in rural areas of Zambia. The impact of CHA programs was found to include: task shifting and uptake of services, evidence-based strategies to recruit high … [Read more...] about Zambia’s Community Health Assistants (CHAs)
Task-shifting impact of introducing a pilot community health worker cadre into Zambia’s public sector health workforce
In 2012, a new cadre of Community Health Assistants (CHAs) were deployed as part of Zambia’s National Community Health Strategy. This study aims to evaluate the impact CHAs have on the volume and type of health services provided. Results show that the addition of CHAs in rural areas increased health service provision shifting the burden of basic health … [Read more...] about Task-shifting impact of introducing a pilot community health worker cadre into Zambia’s public sector health workforce