This presentation slide deck provides an overview of six key steps for financing a community health system: aligning political will to policy costing creating a "case" engaging funders building a gap analysis identifying new sources … [Read more...] about Financing Alliance for Health Financing Curriculum
Financing Alliance for Health Community Health Financing Compendium
Developed by Financing Alliance for Health, this compendium aims to support governments, i.e., ministries of health and finance, with information as they assess how to finance community health systems. More and more governments are formalizing their community health systems in Africa Financing is a critical enabler of these efforts; health system financing typically … [Read more...] about Financing Alliance for Health Community Health Financing Compendium
The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: A critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent, an accountability
CHWs connect the communities in which they live and the health systems in which they are immersed. Marta Schaaf and her colleagues identified the three main roles of CHWs in bridging this gap: the service extender (bringing medical services to the people), the cultural broker (interpreting medical services for the people), and the social change agent (helping address contexts … [Read more...] about The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: A critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent, an accountability
Community Health Worker employer survey: Perspectives on CHW workforce development in the midwest
US states increasingly seek to enact CHW workforce development programs to provide frontline support for community health, but limited guidelines offer consensus about how to develop and implement these programs. Virginia Chaidez, Angela Palmer-Wackerly, and Kate Trout surveyed CHW employers in Nebraska to inform Nebraskan CHW workforce development. Based on their results, the … [Read more...] about Community Health Worker employer survey: Perspectives on CHW workforce development in the midwest
Task sharing in health workforce: An overview of community health worker programmes in Afghanistan, Egypt and Pakistan
People living in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region countries rely on CHW programs to receive health support. Rachel Folz and Moazzam Ali examined the available evidence on three CHW programs across Egypt, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to understand how to scale up or develop CHW programs in the region. Results underscore the effectiveness of these initiatives and highlight several … [Read more...] about Task sharing in health workforce: An overview of community health worker programmes in Afghanistan, Egypt and Pakistan