Financing Alliance for Health has produced a series of country case studies providing robust information on community health system profiles, taking a financing lens. Each case study includes insights on community health system context, structure and lessons on financing. The government of Brazil has worked to enshrine public health spending in their constitution since 2000. … [Read more...] about Financing Alliance for Health Country Case Study: Brazil
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction: Tensions confronting large-scale CHW programme
CHW programs are receiving more attention globally, but face numerous challenges, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Based on case studies and previous literature, this review outlines how to design and implement large scale CHW programs. The review also highlights five potential challenges in implementing large-scale CHW programs. … [Read more...] about Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction: Tensions confronting large-scale CHW programme
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education
CHWs are providing an increasing range of care, managing more complex health issues, collaborating more closely with other health workers and the communities without explicitly defined roles. This paper explores key themes of (1) professionalism, (2) quality and performance, and (3) scaling up for training of CHWs in response to these enhanced and changing roles. This review … [Read more...] about Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education
New England State of the Evidence 2021
CHW Central annually collects and records resources related to CHWs, their work, training, and effectiveness. To help CHWs and other stakeholders keep track of this information and how the field is evolving, CHW Central publishes a brief state of the evidence. The “New England State of the Evidence” focuses primarily on CHW research conducted in New England, but also draws upon … [Read more...] about New England State of the Evidence 2021
State of the Evidence 2021
Every year, CHW Central collects and makes available in our resource database as many resources related to CHWs—articles, gray literature, tools—as we can find. In 2021, we found 442 resources. That’s a lot of information—far too much for most program managers, CHWs, or researchers to go through. To make the scope of evidence more accessible, this brief state of the evidence … [Read more...] about State of the Evidence 2021
