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How Did Liberia Implement? (2022)
Over the last five years, Liberia has created a professional community health worker program, using international guidelines. The program uses 5% of the nation’s health budget and provides a wide breadth and depth of services throughout the country. The authors identified seven key factors that facilitated the program’s success: politicalRead more…
Resolution of Resilience: Empirical Findings on the Challenges Faced and the Mitigation Strategies Adopted by Community Health Workers (CHWs) to Provide Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Odisha, India (2022)
Through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, researchers of this study explored the challenges community health workers face providing maternal and child health care in Odisha, India during the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative approach revealed personal, community and facility level challenges, such as stress, lack of community support and inadequateRead more…
Systematic review of performance-enhancing health worker supervision approaches in low- and middle-income countries (2022)
Through a systematic review, the authors of this study explored approaches to worker supervision that improved CHW performance across low- and middle- income countries. Thirty of the 57 studies that were reviewed focused on CHW programs. The majority of successful approaches utilized some type of digital supervision technologies, such asRead more…
Engaging Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) for cardiovascular diseases risk screening in Nepal (2022)
In Nepal, female community health volunteers (FCHV) provide health services to mitigate cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Using a mixed methods approach, researchers administered a CVD risk screening questionnaire to 491 adults and conducted focus groups among FCHVs to understand perceptions of CVD risk screening. The authors concluded that there is aRead more…
Health Impact Assessment, Step by Step (2019)
To learn about the process of conducting health impact assessments of projects, programs, and policies in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, explain the steps of a high-quality health impact assessment, and know the favorable conditions for successful health impact assessment implementation.
Creating Behavioral Change (2021)
To better understand both the theory and the practice of evidence-based approaches to behavior change through
Supporting Families and Caregivers (2020)
To learn about the challenges families and friends of a patient with serious illness face and how you can care for and support them as a provider, social worker or family friend, including best ways to empower them to get the support they need.
Foundations of Public Health Practice: Behavior & Behavior Change (2020)
To become familiar with the scope, theory and implementation of behavior change in the context of public health practice.
Drugs, drug use, drug policy and health (2022)
To develop a strong understanding of the major health issues related to drug use and drug policy and learn tools to engage in the drug policy reform movement at the local or regional level.
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks (2021)
Successful CHW programs are well planned and considerations about work and workload are carefully thought through in advance. This paper highlights the need to consult with local CHW’s as well as previous literature when planning roles and tasks for CHWs for new programs. It provides a list of 10 questionsRead more…
Community Health Worker Training Curricula and Intervention Outcomes in African American and Latinx Communities: A Systematic Review (2020)
Community health workers are key stakeholders in implementing community-based interventions in racially diverse contexts. This systematic review illustrates key evidentiary gaps in the field to inform effective training for CHWs working with African American and Latinx communities. The study demonstrates the continued need for creating and disseminating evidence-based CHW curriculaRead more…
Refresher Training on MedlinePlus (2022)
This training provides an overview of Medline Plus, a website developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine for patients and caregivers, the mission is to provide quality health and wellness information, in English and Spanish. Topics include a medical encyclopedia, drugs, supplements, and information on medical tests among manyRead more…
CHW Catalog ()
CHW Associations lead workforce advocacy, ensuring workforce development, enhancing equity and helping improve employment opportunities and working conditions. Creating functioning and sustainable associations is difficult and there is so much that associations can learn from one another, even across countries. CHW Central is collecting information from CHW associations, networks, andRead more…
Support patients during the COVID crisis (2020)
COVID affects more than our health. The crisis has affected social connections, finances, access to food, housing, medical care and many other aspects of life. People who were disadvantaged before the pandemic will likely be hardest hit by these social, health and economic consequences. Community health workers –trusted laypeople fromRead more…
Financing Community Health Programs for Scale and Sustainability [Self-paced] (2022)
The Financing Community Health Programs for Scale and Sustainability course series presents an in-depth exploration of the financing value chain needed to understand resource needs as well as to mobilize resources for community health. The series aims to engage learners with insights from stakeholders within Ministries of Health (MOH), MinistriesRead more…
Advocacy Training for Community Health Workers (2022)
In the “Advocacy Training for Community Health Workers” course, CHWs will learn skills to effectively share their stories and advocate for the health issues most important to their profession and communities.
Building a Community Health Worker Program: The Key to Better Care, Better Outcomes, & Lower Costs (2018)
This CHW toolkit will cover what CHW programs are and what is suggested to implement a program on your own as well as the benefits to your organization, your patients and your community.
Food and Housing Insecurity in the Wake of COVID-19 (2020)
Video presents the issues of housing and food insecurity in the US which were exagerated by COVID-19. Explores opportunities and partnerships for the future policy and advocacy to address inequity.
The Next Normal: Mental Health (2021)
A discussion of increased psychological distress during the COVID 19 pandemic on the mental health of Black Americans and persons with disabilities, strategies to address it, systems-level challenges to services and specific actions to be taken.
COVID Latinx Disparities (2021)
Training reviews the impact of COVID 19 on Hispanic/Latinx communities, and looks at effective approaches for addressing disparities
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