The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides a policy framework to re-imagine a system of care that emphasizes health and wellness through new models of primary care and population health interventions. These new models offer the potential to deliver care services at a lower cost, to detect and treat disease earlier, to deploy data and technology to improve … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers in California: Sharpening Our Focus on Strategies to Expand Engagement
Human Resources Management/Workforce Development
In Depth Interviews of Health Workers in Sierra Leone
Coherent human resource for health (HRH) policies should be designed to address the challenges faced in recruitment and retention of health workers, particularly in developing countries. In Sierra Leone, there are challenges in providing equitable healthcare for all due in part to the current HRH situation, which includes an unequal distribution of the health workforce between … [Read more...] about In Depth Interviews of Health Workers in Sierra Leone
Remuneration for Community Health Workers: Recommendations to the World Health Organization
The question of remuneration for community health workers (CHWs) in low--‐income countries remains contentious. Programs use a variety of monetary and non--‐monetary incentives to motivate CHWs. The most successful programs, however, pay their workers, and there is little evidence to suggest that volunteerism in low--‐income countries is sustainable over the long … [Read more...] about Remuneration for Community Health Workers: Recommendations to the World Health Organization
It’s not Ebola…it’s the systems
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa demonstrates key deficiencies in investment in health systems. Despite some modest investment in health systems, our field has instead largely chosen to pursue shorter-term, vertical efforts to more rapidly address key global health issues such as smallpox, polio, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. While those efforts have yielded … [Read more...] about It’s not Ebola…it’s the systems
An Action Guide on Community Health Workers (CHWs): Guidance for the CHW Workforce
This guide may be helpful to members, or prospective members, of the CHW workforce in a variety of ways. It summarizes evidence-based best practices that CHWs should seek to adopt or reinforce in their work with patients and families. It delineates possible quality indicators for high-quality CHW programs. This guide also provides background on key state policy … [Read more...] about An Action Guide on Community Health Workers (CHWs): Guidance for the CHW Workforce