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Addressing Chronic Disease through Community Health Workers: A Policy and Systems-Level Approach. A Policy Brief on Community Health Workers

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This document provides guidance and resources for implementing recommendations to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into community-based efforts to prevent chronic disease. After providing general information on CHWs in the United States, it sets forth evidence demonstrating the value and impact of CHWs in preventing and managing a variety of chronic diseases, including … [Read more...] about Addressing Chronic Disease through Community Health Workers: A Policy and Systems-Level Approach. A Policy Brief on Community Health Workers

The Community Health Worker’s Sourcebook: A Training Manual for Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke

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Community health workers (CHWs) can play a critical role in promoting healthy living by educating community members about heart disease and stroke prevention and by helping people understand the importance of health care self-management, especially in underserved communities throughout the United States. The Community Health Worker’s Sourcebook: A Training Manual for … [Read more...] about The Community Health Worker’s Sourcebook: A Training Manual for Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke

Breast and Cervical Cancer Messages for Community Health Worker Programs: A Training Packet (Part 2)

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This training packet provides an introduction to interactive methods for training community health workers, and three lesson plans for training CHWs to include breast and cervical cancer messages in their work. The included lesson plans are (a) key facts about finding breast and cervical cancer early; (b) barriers to breast and cervical cancer screening, and (c) encouraging … [Read more...] about Breast and Cervical Cancer Messages for Community Health Worker Programs: A Training Packet (Part 2)

Effectiveness of community health workers delivering preventive interventions for maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

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Community Health Workers are widely utilised in low- and middle-income countries and may be an important tool in reducing maternal and child mortality; however, evidence is lacking on their effectiveness for specific types of programmes, specifically programmes of a preventive nature. This review reports findings on a systematic review analysing effectiveness of preventive … [Read more...] about Effectiveness of community health workers delivering preventive interventions for maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

CHW Program Functionality Improvement, Performance and Engagement: Operations Research Results from Zambia

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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