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One for all, all for One Health- Assessing the impact of installing joint human-animal disease surveillance on the reporting performance of Community Health Workers in Sierra Leone • (2019)
As part of the One Health Project, community health workers are trained in joint animal and human disease surveillance as a way for early detection of the zoonotic disease Ebola. This master’s thesis explores whether CHWs in the One Health Project submit more surveillance reports vs their non-One Health ProjectRead more…
Participants’ perceptions of interactions with community health workers who promote behavior change: a qualitative characterization from participants with normal, depressive, and anxious mood states (2018)
This study attempts to characterize the relationship dynamics between Latino participants and CHWs from the participant’s perspective to determine if CHW-delivered community interventions affect behavior change among participants who reported anxiety and depression.
Tobacco cessation in Vietnam: Exploring the role of village health workers (2018)
Presenting the results of a survey of 449 Village Health Workers (VHWs) from 26 communes in the Thai Nguyen province of Vietnam, this study explores current tobacco use treatment (TUT) practice patterns, attitudes and beliefs among VHWs about delivering smoking cessation interventions and perceived barriers to doing so.
ZIKA: a new system to empower health workers and local communities to improve surveillance protocols by E-learning and to forcast ZIka virus in real time in Brazil (2018)
This paper presents the “ZIKA system” a mobile surveillance, e-learning and forecasting system, that helps community health workers to learn techniques and good practices in the surveillance of the ZIKA virus. The system is one of the first to combine public health surveillance, citizen-driven participatory reporting and weather data-based prediction.
Community health workers and use of mHealth: improving identification of pregnancy complications and access to care in the Dominican republic • (2018)
This article presents the feasibility and acceptability of using mobile health technology by community health workers (CHWs) in San Juan Province, Dominican Republic, to improve identification of pregnancy complications and access to care for pregnant women.
Evaluating the training of Chinese-speaking community health workers to implement a small group intervention promoting mammography (2019)
This randomized control trial evaluated the use of community health workers in increasing adherence to mammography screening guidelines among Chinese American women.
Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline (2019)
This abridged version of the WHO CHW guideline, provides a snapshot for policy makers, planners and managers on the evidence and recommendations for improving community health worker program optimization
Community health, global knowledge? Experiences from Uganda (feature resource documentary) (2019)
With an aim to improve the ability of low-income countries to learn from and act on the successes and failures of each other, the Oxford Policy Management published this documentary on Uganda’s experiences with community health and the vital role played by community health workers.
Does supportive supervision enhance community health worker motivation? A mixed-methods study in four African countries. (2018)
This paper presents a mixed methods implementation study that assessed the effect of the supervision on CHW’s perceptions of supervision and motivation-related outcomes.
Effect of Community Health Worker Support on Clinical Outcomes of Low-Income Patients Across Primary Care Facilities-A Randomized Clinical Trial (2019)
This randomized trial sort to assess whether a standardized intervention delivered by community health workers can be effective for improving clinical outcomes. The results showed that indeed they could improve patient-perceived quality.
How Community Health Workers Can Affect Health Care (2018)
This paper seeks to answer the question: How do community health workers affect health care?
How are gender inequalities facing India’s one million ASHAs being addressed? Policy origins and adaptations for the world’s largest all-female community health worker programme (2019)
This paper looks at the world’s largest community health worker program, India’s accredited social health activist program (ASHA), through a gender lens. It assesses the difficulties these female workers face and how these challenges are being addressed.
Factors enabling community health workers and volunteers to overcome sociocultural barriers to behaviour change: meta-synthesis using the concept of social capital (2019)
In this qualitative study, the SPIDER framework is used in a meta-synthesis to assess the factors that enable community health workers to overcome the socio-cultural barriers to behavior change.
“They do not see us as one of them”: a qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ working relationships with healthcare workers in rural North-Central Nigeria (2019)
Mentor mothers (MMs) are HIV positive women who provide support to other women living with HIV, particularly in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). This qualitative study explores the experiences, working conditions, and relationships between MMs and health workers in Nigeria.
Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix (CHW AIM): Updated Program Functionality Matrix for Optimizing Community Health Programs (2018)
To support quality CHW program design and implementation, USAID, UNICEF, the Community Health Impact Coalition, and Initiatives Inc. have updated and adapted the Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix (CHW AIM) Program Functionality Matrix tool. This tool can be applied at district, regional, and national levels to identify and closeRead more…
The Community Health Systems (CHS) Catalog (2018)
The Community Health Systems (CHS) Catalog is a one-stop ‘shop’ for information on community health policies and programs across 25 countries, including extensive information on CHWs. Developed in 2014 and updated in 2017, it provides policymakers, program managers, researchers and donors with policy data to advance community health research, programming,Read more…
Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO): a new model for community health worker training and support (2018)
This article describes a distance learning approach for CHWs using the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model™, which is a video-conferencing-based mentorship model. The authors describe the ECHO model for CHW training and mentoring using case examples and pre/post-surveys from an obesity prevention and addiction recovery program. They conclude thatRead more…
Factors enabling community health workers and volunteers to overcome sociocultural barriers to behaviour change: meta-synthesis using the concept of social capital (2018)
A meta-synthesis of the existing literature, this article examines 33 publications to identify the factors that enable community health workers to bring about behavior change. It explicitly recognizes the difference between full-time trained and salaried community health workers and part-time community volunteers and proposes an approach to better coordinating theRead more…
Community Health Policy Matters (2017)
APC’s Community Health Policy Matters video tells the story of fictional characters Winnie and Mary, and how a fragmented health system affects each woman’s ability to access family planning services in her respective community. This animated video highlights how policy can improve the health system for women.
Scoping review assessing the evidence used to support the adoption of mobile health (mHealth) technologies for the education and training of community health workers (CHWs) in low-income and middle-income countries (2018)
Do mobile technologies help CHWs learn? This article presents the findings of a systematic review, which probed the literature for evidence on the learning benefits of mobile technology in CHW training and education.
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