Authors: Mahmoud Werfalli, Peter J. Raubenheimer, Mark Engel, Alfred Musekiwa, Kirsten Bobrow, Nasheeta Peer, Cecilia Hoegfeldt, Sebastiana Kalula, Andre Pascal Kengne & Naomi S. Levitt
Low- and middle-income countries house 80% of all cases of diabetes worldwide. Community-based peer and community health worker-led diabetes self-management programs offer a low-resource strategy to support diabetes management. Mahmoud Werfalli and colleagues surveyed research on these programs to understand how they have been implemented and what their impacts are on health. The researchers were unable to generalize their findings due to wide variability in the quality of research methods and the number and types of interventions tested.
Link: The effectiveness of peer and community health worker-led self-management support programs for improving diabetes health-related outcomes in adults in low- and-middle-income countries: a systematic review
Resource Topic: NON Communicable Diseases/NCD
Resource Type: Best practices, Research
Year: 2020
Region: Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North America (U.S. and Canada), Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Global
Publisher May Restrict Access: No