Authors: By: Claire Glenton, Christopher J. Colvin, Benedicte Carlsen, Alison Swartz, Simon Lewin, Jane Noyes, Arash Rashidian
The chronic shortage of health workers globally is a major obstacle when trying to provide crucial health care delivery in areas of the world where it is needed the most. A way to approach this issue has been to “task shift” health professional roles to providers such as lay health workers (LHW), a “lay person” that has been trained to provide health services but is not a conventional health professional. This review seeks to assess the effectiveness of LHWs and explore factors that can influence the success of LHW programs in maternal and child health programs.
Link: Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lay health worker programmes to improve access to maternal and child health
Resource Topic: CHW Role, Care Teams, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Program Evaluation, Task shifting
Resource Type: Evaluation, Research
Year: 2016
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