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Community Health Worker Performance in the Management of Multiple Childhood Illnesses: Siaya District, Kenya, 1997–2001 (2001)
This report summarizes the CHW evaluations conducted in 1998, 1999 and 2001. It also characterizes community health worker (CHW) performance using an algorithm for managing common childhood illnesses in Siaya District, Kenya. Results showed deficiencies were found in the management of sick children by CHWs, although care was not consistentlyRead more…
Madres para la Salud: design of a theory-based intervention for postpartum Latinas. (2011)
Weight gain in young women suggests that childbearing may be an important contributor to the development of obesity in women. Depressive symptoms can interfere with resumption of normal activity levels following childbirth or with the initiation of or adherence to physical activity programs essential for losing pregnancy weight. Depression symptomsRead more…
Community health workers and medicaid managed care in New Mexico. (2012)
We describe the impact of community health workers (CHWs) providing community-based support services to enrollees who are high consumers of health resources in a Medicaid managed care system. The CHWs provided patients education, advocacy and social support for a period up to 6 months. For all measures, there was aRead more…
It’s all about the children: a participant-driven photo-elicitation study of Mexican-origin mothers’ food choices (2011)
There is a desperate need to address diet-related chronic diseases in Mexican-origin women, particularly for those in border region colonias (Mexican settlements) and other new destination communities in rural and non-rural areas of the U.S. Understanding the food choices of mothers, who lead food and health activities in their families,Read more…
Injectable contraception provided by community-based health workers: one important step toward meeting unmet need (2013)
Community-based provision of injectable contraception continues to advance and is gaining wider acceptance—a major step toward meeting unmet need. However, fully addressing family planning need will require access to a much wider range of methods, including long-acting reversible contraception and permanent methods.
Early pregnancy detection by female community health volunteers in Nepal facilitated referral for appropriate reproductive health services (2013)
Trained female community health volunteers provided low-cost urine pregnancy tests in their communities, leading to counseling and appropriate referrals for antenatal care, family planning, or comprehensive abortion care.
Cancer Screening for Underserved Women: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study (2008)
BACCIS targeted ∼25,000 multiethnic, underserved women in eight neighborhoods and the public health clinics that served them. An outreach intervention using lay health worker peers and clinic provider inreach intervention to improve breast and cervical cancer screening were evaluated in a quasi-experimental, controlled trial with pretest and posttest household surveys.Read more…
Participants’ assessments of the effects of a community health worker intervention on their diabetes self-management and interactions with healthcare providers. (2009)
The specific ways in which community health worker (CHW) programs affect participants’ healthcare behaviors and interactions with their healthcare providers, as well as mechanisms by which CHW programs influence these outcomes, are poorly understood. A qualitative descriptive study of participants in a successful CHW diabetes self-management program was designed toRead more…
The Healthy Connections project: a community-based participatory research project involving women at risk for diabetes and hypertension. (2009)
The Healthy Connections (HC) project was a community health worker (CHW) intervention that built upon existing social networks to encourage African American and Latina women to obtain screening for type 2 diabetes and hypertension. This community-based participatory research (CBPR) project involved identifying and training CHWs, known as HC Advocates (HCAs).Read more…
Effective utilization and evaluation of indigenous health care workers. (1989)
The use of indigenous health care workers (IHCWs), who were key elements in community health care programs in the United States in the 1960s, has gone in and out of fashion in subsequent years. The author and his colleagues recently established a service program at Wayne State University’s Institute ofRead more…
The Impact of Paraprofessional versus Volunteer-Driven Home Visiting Programs on the Wellbeing of Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Evidence from a Longitudinal Evaluation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2013)
This brief describes the findings and program implications from a study designed to develop critical knowledge on “what works” to improve the well-being of children affected by HIV and AIDS. Community-based home visiting, in which care workers provide a range of support services during regular visits to the child’s home,Read more…
Texting for Maternal Wellbeing: Use of Mobile Phones by CHWs to Offer Family Planning Services (2014)
This report summarizes an innovative mobile health application piloted among community health workers (CHWs) and health center staff to improve contraceptive prevalence in Benin’s Toffo and Zè communes. URC’s non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services, conducted the pilot through the USAID-supported Partnership for Community Management of Child Health (PRISE-C)Read more…
Malnutrition Is Treatable: Access to Nutrition Services Makes the Impossible Possible for an OVC (2014)
This success story describes URC’s work with the government of Uganda to overcome malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic food and a simple device for detecting malnutrition. USAID’s Food and Nutrition Interventions for Uganda (NuLife), managed by URC, is helping the government reach rural populations by providing training to community-based workers.
Malaria Control in Cambodia: Community Mobilization for Malaria Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment (2011)
This technical brief describes the approaches and lessons learned from the Malaria Control in Cambodia (MCC) project in mobilizing village malaria workers (VMWs) as an important source of information regarding malaria cases in remote communities. MCC is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by UniversityRead more…
Indicators of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding maternal and newborn health in Amhara and Oromiya Regions, Ethiopia (2010)
This formative research report by the Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia Partnership (MaNHEP) examines both supply-side and demand-side dimensions of maternal and newborn health care. A key aim of the research was to understand the low rates of interaction between mothers and trained frontline health workers, including health extensionRead more…
Integrating Nutrition Into HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programs (2014)
This HIV & Infant Feeding Question and Answer Guide is a reference tool to provide health workers with information concerning updated international guidelines related to HIV and infant feeding. Health workers can refer to the Guide to explain the issues related to HIV and infant feeding, provide information and supportRead more…
Final Report: ProMPT Ghana Project (2013)
This report summarizes the achievements and results of the Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment (ProMPT) Ghana project. It presents the strategies used, lessons learned, and implications for future activities. ProMPT Ghana was a four-year, USAID-funded project under the President’s Malaria Initiative. The project aimed to strengthen the capacity, effectiveness, andRead more…
Community Health Workers in Benin Save Lives by Diagnosing Malaria (2014)
The Benin Integrated Family Health Project (Projet Intégré de Santé Familiale, PISAF) works to increase access to and improve the quality of family health services. This project report describes how, in remote areas where formal health workers are scarce, PISAF trains volunteer community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic services.Read more…
Community Health Volunteer Program Functionality and Performance in Madagascar: A Synthesis of Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments (2013)
For more than a decade, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Madagascar and other partners have invested in the development of a national community health volunteer (CHV) system to improve access to life-saving primary health care services for rural and remote populations. This project aims to increaseRead more…
Randomized controlled trial of the effects of nurse case manager and community health worker interventions on risk factors for diabetes-related complications in urban African Americans. (2003)
African Americans suffer disproportionately from diabetes complications, but little research has focused on how to improve diabetic control in this population. There are also few or no data on a combined primary care and community-based intervention approach. This study randomly assigned 186 urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes toRead more…
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