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Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers

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Welcome to Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers (the CHW Reference Guide). This guide is a long and detailed volume that is not intended to be read from cover to cover but rather to be used as a document that can be referred to as specific issues or questions arise. In … [Read more...] about Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers

Best Practice Guidelines for Implementing and Evaluating Community Health Worker Programs in Health Care Settings

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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 … [Read more...] about Best Practice Guidelines for Implementing and Evaluating Community Health Worker Programs in Health Care Settings

Community case management of malaria: exploring support, capacity and motivation of community medicine distributors in Uganda

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Abstract Background In Uganda, community services for febrile children are expanding from presumptive treatment of fever with anti-malarials through the home-based management of fever (HBMF) programme, to include treatment for malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia through Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM). To understand the level of support available, and the capacity and … [Read more...] about Community case management of malaria: exploring support, capacity and motivation of community medicine distributors in Uganda

mHealth Support Tools for Improving the Performance of Frontline Health Workers: An Inventory and Analytical Review

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The United Nations (UN) Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children (hereafter referred to as the “Commission) was established in 2012 to increase access to and expand the use of 13 life-saving health commodities for women and children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by 2015. To achieve this goal, the Commission made 10 recommendations, based on … [Read more...] about mHealth Support Tools for Improving the Performance of Frontline Health Workers: An Inventory and Analytical Review