Uganda’s CHWs, Village Health Teams (VHT), support village health information access and some primary health care. However, these programs are often underfunded contributing to higher rates of attrition within these teams. Through focus groups and in-depth interviews with CHWs and other key stakeholders, this study determined preferred job incentives for CHWs that would … [Read more...] about Understanding community health worker incentive preferences in Uganda using a discrete choice experiment.
Research Assessment of COVID-19 Vaccination Intention Among Community Health Workers: a Web-based Cross-sectional Survey During the First Wave of the Pandemic in India
Vaccine hesitancy threatens the great potential of vaccination against COVID-19. Community health workers (CHWs) bridge the gap between the community and the health care system and can help change the community’s perceptions.. This study aimed to understand the community healthcare worker's intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in India and its determinants. Results … [Read more...] about Research Assessment of COVID-19 Vaccination Intention Among Community Health Workers: a Web-based Cross-sectional Survey During the First Wave of the Pandemic in India
Associations between community health workers’ home visits and education based inequalities in institutional delivery and perinatal mortality in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study
India’s National Health Mission has trained community health workers called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to visit and counsel women before and after birth. This study aimed to examine whether ASHAs’ third trimester home visits may have contributed to improvements in institutional delivery and reductions in perinatal mortality rates (PMRs) between women with … [Read more...] about Associations between community health workers’ home visits and education based inequalities in institutional delivery and perinatal mortality in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study
Barriers to the uptake of community-based curative child health services in Ethiopia
The utilization of services to treat newborns and children has been persistently low in Ethiopia, despite being free services provided by Health Extension Workers (HEWs). The authors of this study sought to identify barriers to the uptake of neonatal and child health services and potential solutions to inform the Optimizing the Health Extension Project. Cultural beliefs, … [Read more...] about Barriers to the uptake of community-based curative child health services in Ethiopia
Bottlenecks to Intervention Scale Up: Supply and Demand Side Perspectives From a Large, Community-based Trial of Malaria Testing
Despite decades of control efforts, malaria remains a major public health problem. The deployment of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) through trained community health workers could improve access to diagnosis for populations with limited access to health facilities. The study evaluated an intervention that targeted individuals who seek care in the retail sector by offering free … [Read more...] about Bottlenecks to Intervention Scale Up: Supply and Demand Side Perspectives From a Large, Community-based Trial of Malaria Testing