Authors: Daniel Palazuelos, PIH Community Health Systems Initiative Round Table Series
The Community Health Impact Coalition (chwimpact.org) harnesses the potential of CHWs to extend health services to poor and marginalized populations; there is an urgent need to better understand how CHW programs can be optimized. Rigorous evidence that CHW care delivery can improve access to care and reduce mortality continues to accumulate, but the most recent evaluations of national-scale CHW programs remain unfavorable. CHWs can contribute to advancing universal health coverage, but only if they are set up for success via integration into well-designed and adequately funded health systems.
Six organizations – Hope Through Health, Last Mile Health, Living Goods, Muso, Partners In Health, and Possible – have developed high-impact CHW programs with governments and communities across the globe. Understanding that several operational questions are unresolved by current academic evidence, they have come together to create a report identifying insights from their implementation experience.
This podcast features Dr. Madeleine Ballard, previously the founding Program Manager of Last Mile Health, a Liberian organisation that recruits, trains, and equips community health workers (CHWs) to provide primary care in remote villages. Dr. Ballard holds a PhD in evaluation science (EBSI) from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Objectives:
- Learn more about implementation experience
- Determine how CHWs can contribute to advancing Universal Health Care
- Support high-impact CHW programs with governments and communities across the globe
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Resource Type: Best practices, Case studies, Presentations, Research
Year: 2017
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
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