Authors: Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization
Participation of community health workers (CHWs) in the provision of primary health care has been experienced all over the world for several decades, and there is an amount of evidence showing that they can add significantly to the efforts of improving the health of the population, particularly in those settings with the highest shortage of motivated and capable health professionals.
With the overall aim of identifying CHWs programs with positive impact on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health or otherwise, a global systematic review was undertaken of such interventions, as well as eight in-depth country case studies in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia Mozambique and Uganda), South East Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan and Thailand) and Latin America (Brazil and Haiti). The focus was on key aspects of these programs, encompassing typology of CHWs, selection, training, supervision, standards for evaluation and certification, deployment patterns, in-service training, performance, and impact assessment.
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Resource Topic: Accreditation/Certification, CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Country Ownership, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Performance management, Recruitment and Retention, Scale-up, Supervision, Training
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2010
Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mozambique, Pakistan, Thailand, Uganda
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