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Supervising Illiterate Community Health Workers in South Sudan to Deliver Integrated Community Case Management Services for Newborns and Children

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Improving and maintaining the clinical skills of frontline health workers over time is critical for strengthening health systems and providing adequate care to mothers, newborns, and children - supervision is widely recognized as a key to improving health worker performance.  In Warrap State, South Sudan, a 13-month study was undertaken to describe and assess a supervision … [Read more...] about Supervising Illiterate Community Health Workers in South Sudan to Deliver Integrated Community Case Management Services for Newborns and Children

Community Health Workers in California: Sharpening Our Focus on Strategies to Expand Engagement

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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

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

A Training Program in Community-Directed Intervention (CDI) to Improve Access to Essential Health ServicesThis series of 18 training modules can be used in a five- or six-day workshop to deliver technical content on case management and prevention of commo

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This series of 18 training modules can be used in a five- or six-day workshop to deliver technical content on case management and prevention of common health problems through a community-directed delivery mechanism. These modules build on field experience in delivering malaria services through community effort as well as on the 16+ years of effort by the African Program for … [Read more...] about A Training Program in Community-Directed Intervention (CDI) to Improve Access to Essential Health ServicesThis series of 18 training modules can be used in a five- or six-day workshop to deliver technical content on case management and prevention of commo

Scaling up delivery of contraceptive implants in sub-Saharan Africa: operational experiences of Marie Stopes International

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Contraceptive implants offer promising opportunities for addressing the high and growing unmet need for modern contraceptives in sub-Saharan Africa. Marie Stopes International (MSI) offers implants as one of many family planning options. High levels of client satisfaction were attained alongside service provision scale up by using existing MSI service delivery channels—mobile … [Read more...] about Scaling up delivery of contraceptive implants in sub-Saharan Africa: operational experiences of Marie Stopes International