Authors: Kalin Werner, Mohini Kak, Christopher H Herbst, Tracy Kuo Lin
The purpose of this article was to review the evidence on community health worker (CHW)-delivered healthcare in conflict-affected settings and to synthesize the reported information on the effectiveness of interventions and characteristics of care delivery. Data was collected from OVID MedLine, Web of Science, Embase, Scopus, The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINHAL), and Google Scholar databases. From this data, nineteen countries were represented and five categories of disease were assessed. The evidence found that CHW interventions may not only be effective, but also efficient in circumventing the barriers associated with access to care in conflict-affected settings, with particular promise shown for CHW roles in integrated community case management, task sharing, disease detection, and care adherence, among others areas.
Link: The role of community health worker-based care in post-conflict settings: a systematic review
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Post-conflict settings
Resource Type: Review
Year: 2023
Region: Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Uganda
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