This review looked at how community health workers (CHWs) help people with type 2 diabetes manage their blood sugar. Analyzing seven studies with over 1,600 participants, it found that CHW support led to clear and meaningful improvements in blood sugar control, especially among low-income and minority groups. … [Read more...] about Evaluating the effectiveness of community health worker interventions on glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Q&A with Madeleine Ballard
Dr. Madeleine Ballard leads the Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC), a global group working to make professional community health workers a standard part of healthcare. CHIC is making professional community health workers (proCHWs) the norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding, and policy. She helps push for policies that improve care for both patients and health … [Read more...] about Q&A with Madeleine Ballard
Accelerating Decent Work: Formalizing Home Care and Community Health Workers
This report shows that many home-based and community health workers still face poor working conditions, like low pay, long hours, and lack of legal protections, especially women. It highlights the need to treat care work as real work, with fair pay and rights, to reduce abuse, support gender equality, and improve the quality of care. Recognizing and protecting these workers … [Read more...] about Accelerating Decent Work: Formalizing Home Care and Community Health Workers
Are Economic Evaluations of Task Shifting Too Narrow in Focus? A Rapid Review
This study reviewed research from 2014 to 2024 on the costs and benefits of task shifting, where health tasks are moved from highly trained workers to others like community health workers, to help address staff shortages. While most studies looked at health costs and outcomes, many failed to consider other important effects like staff workload, access to care, waiting times, … [Read more...] about Are Economic Evaluations of Task Shifting Too Narrow in Focus? A Rapid Review
Costs and cost-effectiveness of community health worker programs focussed on HIV, TB and malaria infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (2015–2024) A scoping literature review
This review looked at how cost-effective community health worker (CHW) programs are in tackling HIV, TB, and malaria in low- and middle-income countries. It included 33 studies from 2015 to 2024, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. CHWs provided services like health education, finding cases, helping with diagnosis, treatment support, and referrals. Most studies found that CHW … [Read more...] about Costs and cost-effectiveness of community health worker programs focussed on HIV, TB and malaria infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (2015–2024) A scoping literature review