Honduras

A retrospective review of the Honduras AIN-C program guided by a community health worker performance logic model

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Researchers attempted to review community-based Integrated Care of the Child (AIN-C), a growth-monitoring program, using a recently designed logic model proposing categories of support from both health sector and communities that influence community health worker performance and program outcomes. Retrospectively reviewing AIN-C using in-depth interviews, gaps in the logic model … [Read more...] about A retrospective review of the Honduras AIN-C program guided by a community health worker performance logic model

Community Health Worker Incentives and Disincentives: How They Affect Motivation, Retention, and Sustainability

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This paper examines various incentives used to motivate and retain community health workers, particularly those working in child health and nutrition programs in developing countries. Drawing from case studies in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Honduras and Madagascar, the authors recommend a more systematic use of multiple incentives based on an understanding of the different … [Read more...] about Community Health Worker Incentives and Disincentives: How They Affect Motivation, Retention, and Sustainability

Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers

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This article presents a model for the development of sustainable primary health care in village communities in Honduras through the training and support of CHWs. The model, piloted in Comayagua, follows a "bottom-up" approach. A training curriculum for CHWs was developed that addressed the area's predominant health problems and made use of "Where there is no doctor" Training, a … [Read more...] about Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers