This article compares and contrasts 3 national studies of the US Community Health Worker (CHW) field spanning 15 years. Findings cover 4 areas of overlap among the 3 studies: CHW Demographics, Core Roles and Competencies, Training and Credentialing, and Career Advancement and Workforce Issues. Implications for the future development of research, practice, and policy are … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers Then and Now: An Overview of National Studies Aimed at Defining the Field
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Performance of community health workers under integrated community case management of childhood illnesses in eastern Uganda
This study compared the performance of community health workers managing malaria and pneumonia with performance of those managing malaria alone in eastern Uganda and the factors influencing performance. … [Read more...] about Performance of community health workers under integrated community case management of childhood illnesses in eastern Uganda
Community Health Workers – A Local Solution to a Global Problem
This paper urges scaling up the communityhealth workforce in the United States to improve health outcomes, reduce health care costs, and create jobs. The most crucial lesson from global CHW programs is that the community rootedness of CHWs should be retained through careful, representative selection and by ensuring that CHWs spend most of their time in the … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers – A Local Solution to a Global Problem
Shared learning in an interconnected world: innovations to advance global health equity
The notion of “reverse innovation”–that some insights from low-income countries might offer transferable lessons for wealthier contexts--is increasingly common in the global health and business strategy literature. Yet the perspectives of researchers and policymakers in settings where these innovations are developed have been largely absent from the discussion to … [Read more...] about Shared learning in an interconnected world: innovations to advance global health equity
Developed-developing country partnerships: Benefits to developed countries?
Developing countries can generate effective solutions for today’s global health challenges. This paper reviews relevant literature to construct the case for international cooperation, and in particular, developed-developing country partnerships. Standard database and web-based searches were conducted for publications in English between 1990 and 2010. Studies containing full or … [Read more...] about Developed-developing country partnerships: Benefits to developed countries?