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Retention of health workers in rural Sierra Leone: findings from life histories (2016)
In light of the health worker shortage due to the post-conflict period and Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, it is crucially important to understand different motivation factors for rural health workers, including doctors, nurses, midwives and Community Health Workers. Researchers conducted 23 participatory life histories with health workers, revealing thatRead more…
Mounting Evidence of the Effectiveness and Versatility of Community Health Workers (2016)
Recent years have proven that community health workers serve important roles in healthcare systems, including in the United States. This article briefly discusses the effectiveness and versatility of community health workers and their various roles in healthcare delivery systems. The evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of community health workers in manyRead more…
Understanding Scope and Competencies: A Contemporary Look at the United States Community Health Worker Field (2016)
Progress Report of the Community Health Worker (CHW) Core Consensus (C3) Project: Building National Consensus on CHW Core Roles, Skills, and Qualities : This project focuses on U.S. CHW roles, skills, and qualities and how these shape CHW practice. Collaborating with a number of different state and local CHW associations,Read more…
Study protocol: realist evaluation of effectiveness and sustainability of a community health workers programme in improving maternal and child health in Nigeria (2016)
Community health workers can increase access to, and coverage of, health services – particularly maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries. This 5 year study aimed to evaluate the Nigerian CHW scheme using a mixed-methods realist approach will make an important contribution to healthRead more…
Effectiveness of the Home Based Life Saving Skills training by community health workers on knowledge of danger signs, birth preparedness, complication readiness and facility delivery, among women in Rural Tanzania (2016)
Community health workers in Tanzania are trained in Home Based Life Saving Skills to educate communities on danger signs, birth preparedness, and complication readiness regarding childbirth. However, maternal mortality is currently greater than 400 per 100,000 live births, leading to the question of the effectiveness of this training program. UsingRead more…
How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review (2016)
CHWs often improve health care delivery in their communities by bringing health services closer to hard to reach populations. This study utilized systematic database searches to determine the extent of CHW program equity. Many programs reduced inequity related to location, gender, education, and socioeconomic status. While CHW programs do seemRead more…
What Influences Adolescent Girls’ Decision-Making Regarding Contraceptive Methods Use and Childbearing? A Qualitative Exploratory Study in Rangpur District, Bangladesh (2016)
In order to get a better understanding of adolescent use of contraceptives in Bangladesh, researchers interviewed married adolescent girls, key informants, and CHWs. Main factors regarding the lack of contraceptive use among married adolescents include lack of health knowledge, communication ability, and mistrust towards contraceptive methods. CHWs played an importantRead more…
Monitoring iCCM referral systems: Bugoye Integrated Community Case Management Initiative (BIMI) in Uganda (2016)
Integrated community case management (iCCM) trains village health workers (VHWs) to provide treatment to the most common childhood diseases in Uganda, including malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. One of iCCM’s key features is a referral system for treatment at health facilities, but these referrals are difficult to monitor. A study wasRead more…
“SCALE” and “SCALING-UP”: A CORE Group Background Paper on “Scaling-Up” Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Services (2005)
This paper briefly summarizes definitions, approaches, and challenges to achieving “scale” in community-focused health programs as discussed at the 2005 CORE spring meeting and the USAID child survival and health grants program mini-university. This paper is meant to harmonize a vocabulary for use by NGOs and their partners as theyRead more…
Reaching Communities for Child Health: Advancing Health Outcomes through Multi-Sectoral Approaches (2004)
This paper explores the effectiveness of child health interventions and how to improve health care access for children, mothers, and caregivers. Multi-sectoral approaches, including utilization of community-based programming and community health workers, can help extend the reach of health care to these populations. Answering three questions will allow exploration ofRead more…
mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health (2014)
Mobile health, or “mHealth”, seeks to address the use of mobile technology to provide health services and information. Due to the increased risk in a child’s life during those weeks after birth, mHealth technologies can be utilized through referral and tracking of mothers and infants, decision support for CHW, CHWRead more…
The Expansion of Community-Based Tuberculosis Programming: Critical Program Design Issues for New Partners (2008)
The CORE Group’s Tuberculosis Working Group met with global partners and colleague agencies in 2007 to discuss lessons learned in community-based TB treatment. This paper reflects the discussions from that meeting and the lessons that were articulated throughout the two-day long event. It specifically highlights nine project-design challenges at theRead more…
Evaluation of a mHealth Data Quality Intervention to Improve Documentation of Pregnancy Outcomes by Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi: A Cluster Randomized Trial (2016)
As community health workers gain more and more responsibility amidst shortages of skilled health workers, mobile technology for health (mHealth) is becoming more popular for health care delivery around the globe. In order to better understand the role mHealth applications have among CHWs, researchers tested whether short message services (SMS)Read more…
Community health worker programmes after the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak (2016)
The Ebola virus outbreak in 2013 revealed that health delivery systems in western Africa were not well-equipped to handle such epidemics. This paper argues that robust community health worker programs should be implemented as a strategy for improving global health responses to disasters such as the Ebola outbreak. Because CHWsRead more…
Community Change Agents: “Doctors” of Malaria Information (2016)
Presented at the International Social and Behavioral Change Communication Summit in Ethiopia in February 2016, Ainslie’s PowerPoint presentation goes into detail about the COMMIT Program, a behavior change communication project for malaria prevention, treatment, and control in Tanzania. Key to the project is the utilization of Community Change Agents whoRead more…
Enhancing the Supervision of Community Health Workers With WhatsApp Mobile Messaging: Qualitative Findings From 2 Low-Resource Settings in Kenya (2016)
Using the popular mobile application WhatsApp, a mobile learning intervention was developed and designed to strengthen supervisory support for CHWs in Kenya. 6 months of conversations were analyzed and CHWs and supervisors interviewed to determine how WhatsApp was used in these settings. This preliminary data suggests that CHWs and theirRead more…
Factors Associated With Community Health Worker Performance Differ by Task in a Multi-Tasked Setting in Rural Zimbabwe (2016)
CHWs importantly deliver health care services to communities when shortages in the healthcare workforce exist. However, as their workload increases, CHW abilities to provide quality healthcare may be compromised. Using a cluster-randomized trial in Zimbabwe, CHWs were surveyed to assess the association between demographic and work characteristics and task performance.Read more…
Improving the quality of care of children in community clinics: an intervention and evaluation in Bangladesh (2016)
Using a newly developed case-management job aid based upon the WHO Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guide, community health care providers (CHCPs) in Bangladesh were trained to measure changes in knowledge. After the training, the CHCPs clearly improved their knowledge and provided better quality care to patients. Results from thisRead more…
Hope Through Health with Dr. Kevin Fiori (2016)
Daniel Palazuelos, Partners In Health, and Dr. Kevin Fiori, co-founder of Hope Through Health, discuss Dr. Fiori’s organization and global health. Hope Through Health is an organization dedicated to health care delivery in Togo and faced many challenges in its beginnings, but now successfully utilizes community health workers to empowerRead more…
“Don’t Call it a Comeback, They’ve Been Here for Years” with Shreya Kangovi (2016)
In this roundtable discussion, Daniel Palazuelos, Partners In Health, and Dr. Shreya Kangovi, Penn Center for Community Health Workers, discuss the significance of CHW programs in the United States. Whereas community health workers are often thought to be necessary in resource-poor settings, there is a place for CHWs in theRead more…
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