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Changing Lives Through Social Accountability: Case Studies from World Vision’s UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) Programme Partnership Arrangement (2015)
Case studies in eleven countries including Zambia, Armenia, and Senegal, utilized World Vision’s social accountability approach, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), to address public service improvement. This approach aims to link community members and organizations with each other and also to link these communities with service providers, local governments, andRead more…
Family Planning Counseling in Your Pocket: A Mobile Job Aid for Community Health Workers in Tanzania (2016)
Using mobile job aids can help CHWs deliver integrated counseling on family planning and HIV/STI screening by following a step-by-step service delivery algorithm. Lessons learned during the pilot led to the development of additional features during scale-up to exploit the other major advantages that mHealth offers including: · Better supervision ofRead more…
Effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and child health in low– and middle–income countries: Systematic review and meta–analysis (2016)
Researchers reviewed 16 online international databases to identify studies evaluating the impact of mHealth interventions on MNCH outcomes in LMIC, between January 1990 and May 2014. Results showed that most studies of mHealth for MNCH in LMIC are of poor methodological quality and few have evaluated impacts of patient outcomes.Read more…
Female Health Workers at the Doorstep: A Pilot of Community-Based Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Service Delivery in Northern Nigeria (2016)
Deployment of resident female Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) to a remote rural community led to major and sustained increases in service utilization, including antenatal care and facility-based deliveries. Key components for success include: 1) providing an additional rural residence allowance to help recruit and retain CHEWs; 2) posting theRead more…
CHW Home Visit: Malaria Case (video) (2016)
In this video, community health workers partake in a home visit for a case of malaria.
Utilization of Community-based Health Information Systems in Decision Making and Health Action in Nyalenda, Kisumu County, Kenya (2014)
Information should form the backbone of decisions that effect change in all areas. It is, therefore, paramount in health, for information to be used for decision making. In effect, this will bring about equity in health resource allocation. The development of comprehensive community-based health information systems is increasingly becoming importantRead more…
Unlocking the community health workforce potential, post-Ebola: what models and strategies work? (2016)
The Ebola pandemic of 2014-16 demonstrated the crucial role of the community health workforce in preventing, responding to, and effectively treating health emergencies. As the West Africa region rebuilds its health systems after Ebola, countries and communities have identified a need to develop strategies and plans to embed the roleRead more…
The effectiveness of Technology-assisted Cascade Training and Supervision of community health workers in delivering the Thinking Healthy Program for perinatal depression in a post-conflict area of Pakistan: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2016)
Rates of perinatal depression in low and middle-income countries are reported to be very high. Perinatal depression not only has a profound impact on women’s health, disability and functioning, it is associated with poor child health outcomes such as pre-term birth, under-nutrition, and stunting, which ultimately have an adverse trans-generationalRead more…
Health workers’ experiences, barriers, preferences and motivating factors in using mHealth forms in Ethiopia (2015)
Mobile health (mHealth) applications, such as innovative electronic forms on smartphones, could potentially improve the performance of health care workers and health systems in developing countries. However, contextual evidence on health workers’ barriers and motivating factors that may influence large-scale implementation of such interfaces for health care delivery is scarce. ARead more…
Shifting management of a community volunteer system for improved child health outcomes: results from an operations research study in Burundi (2015)
Community-based strategies that foster frequent contact between caregivers of children under five and provide credible sources of health information are essential to improve child survival. Care Groups are a community-based implementation strategy for the delivery of social and behavior change interventions. This study assessed if supervision of Care Group activitiesRead more…
Effective in-service traininig design and delivery: Evidence from an integrative literature review (2016)
The need to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of both pre-service education and continuing professional education (CPE) (in-service training) for the health workforce has never been greater. Decreasing global resources and a pervasive critical shortage of skilled health workers are paralleled by an explosion in the increase of and accessRead more…
Scaling Up Community-Based Service Delivery of Implanon: The Integrated Family Health Program’s Experience Training Health Extension Workers (2010)
With over 77 million people, Ethiopia has the second largest population in subSaharan Africa and it continues to grow rapidly. Though the country’s contraceptive prevalence rate grew from 8 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in 2005 and nearly 80 percent of currently-married Ethiopian women want to either stop orRead more…
Human Resources for Health Country Profile: The Gambia (2016)
This report was created in 2009 by the African Health Workforce Observatory in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Alliance, and the European Union. It outlines the structure of the Gambian health system and introduces data on the health workforce, including distribution of health workforce, health workforceRead more…
Integrating Family Planning and HIV in Ethiopia: An Analysis of Pathfinder’s Approach and Scale-Up (2016)
Pathfinder International Ethiopia has extensive experience implementing family planning (FP)/HIV integration through public health centers (HCs) and community networks. This brief describes Pathfinder’s approach and its evolution and scale-up over time. It presents their experience in relation to the recommendations of World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on FP/HIV integration andRead more…
Evaluating active roles of community health workers in accelerating universal access to health services for malaria in Palawan, the Philippines (2016)
Palawan is the most malaria-endemic province in the Philippines. In an effort to confront malaria in areas with limited healthcare facilities, microscopists (community health workers) have been trained to diagnose malaria since 1999. Researchers reviewed the epidemiological data and related literature which analyzed the achievements of the microscopists and theirRead more…
Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos (2016)
YouTube Link: Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos Introduction to Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos 30 March 2016 The census-based, impact-oriented (CBIO) approach to improving the health of communities emerged in Bolivia in the 1980s when I was working there withRead more…
Raising the Score: Community empowerment for better maternal health care (2016)
Community empowerment for better maternal health care Learn about the approach CARE has implemented to address community concerns and improve maternal health in Malawi. This is an interactive website with multimedia content.
Community Health Worker Data for Decision-Making (2016)
In 2015, the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign and mPowering Frontline Health Workers (mPowering) conducted a series of interviews and held an online discussion, hosted on the Healthcare Information for All forum, on the need of improved data on community health workers (CHWs) to help achieve the SustainableRead more…
Toward universal coverage in Afghanistan: A multi-stakeholder assessment of capacity investments in the community health worker system (2016)
Global efforts to scale-up the community health workforce have accelerated as a result of the growing evidence of their effectiveness to enhance coverage and health outcomes. Reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan integrated capacity investments for community-based service delivery, including the deployment of over 28,000 community health workers (CHWs) to ensure accessRead more…
Estimating the cost of referral and willingness to pay for referral to higher-level health facilities: a case series study from an integrated community case management programme in Uganda (2015)
Integrated community case management (iCCM) relies on community health workers (CHWs) managing children with malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and referring children when management is not possible. This study sought to establish the cost per sick child referred to seek care from a higher-level health facility by a CHW and to estimateRead more…
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