ChatCHW is a smartphone app designed to enhance the quality of care provided by community health workers (CHWs) worldwide, with consistent and quality care. By combining large language models like ChatGPT with local clinical guidelines, ChatCHW provides expert medical advice tailored to each CHW's region. The app features user-friendly design, multi-language support, and … [Read more...] about Large Language Models to Support Community Health Workers
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State of the Evidence 2021- Appendix
The State of the Evidence report was created by conducting a title/keyword search in six electronic databases for both peer-reviewed and gray literature: Medline (PubMed), Google Scholar, MedNar, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, World Wide Science, and WHO Global Index Medicus. Our completed search returned a total of 1,130 results, of which 736 were non-duplicates. … [Read more...] about State of the Evidence 2021- Appendix
CHW Catalog
CHW Associations lead workforce advocacy, ensuring workforce development, enhancing equity and helping improve employment opportunities and working conditions. Creating functioning and sustainable associations is difficult and there is so much that associations can learn from one another, even across countries. CHW Central is collecting information from CHW associations, … [Read more...] about CHW Catalog
Integrating Community Health Workers into State and Local Chronic Disease Prevention Efforts: Program and Financing Considerations
Results and cost-benefits of chronic disease interventions do not appear for years after efforts are initiated. As a result, community health workers (CHW) roles in the prevention of chronic disease in the United States are undervalued. This brief outlines evidence for integrating CHWs into the healthcare workforce and financial avenues governments can take to support CHW … [Read more...] about Integrating Community Health Workers into State and Local Chronic Disease Prevention Efforts: Program and Financing Considerations
Quality assured COVID-19 Library of resources for community-based health workers
This database offers a variety of medically-reviewed educational materials regarding COVID-19. Visitors will find resources related to: emergency response, risk mitigation and community engagement, case finding, surveillance, public health prevention measures, infection prevention and control, lab testing, case management, and societal response. … [Read more...] about Quality assured COVID-19 Library of resources for community-based health workers