Authors: Prabhjot Singh, Jeffrey Sachs
During the past 10 years, community health workers (CHWs) have emerged as a focal point of international discussions on primary health-care systems. Although lay community-based health workers have been active for at least 60 years, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 prompted new discussion of how these workers can help to extend primary health care from facilities to communities. CHWs have since been part of an international attempt to revise primary health-care delivery in low-income settings, and CHW programmes have been changed accordingly.
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Country Ownership, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Millineum Development Goals/MDG and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Resource Type: Issue papers, Research
Year: 2013
Region: Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North America (U.S. and Canada), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Global
Publisher May Restrict Access: No