Maternal psychosocial concerns, which include depression, anxiety, and psychosocial problems in the home such as intimate partner violence (IPV), serve as significant risk factors to healthy child development. In their daily work, Community Health Workers (CHWs) commonly encounter families experiencing these problems, but on the whole CHW trainings don’t include any … [Read more...] about CHWs and Mental Health: Equipping community health workers with essential skills for addressing mental health and violence in the home
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Moving from Local to Global: Expanding World Vision’s Impact through Community Health Workers
Background: The rapid scale-up of community health workers (CHWs) has been recognized as a global priority in achieving universal health care in the hardest to reach communities and health workforce crisis settings. A single CHW, well trained and supported, can provide essential basic health services to communities that otherwise would have limited access to healthcare. One … [Read more...] about Moving from Local to Global: Expanding World Vision’s Impact through Community Health Workers
Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress
This post originally appeared on the USAID Frontlines Blog With her 3-month-old son, John, lethargic, feverish and vomiting, Korto Kinne sought help in the remote Sinje resettlers camp in the northwestern corner of Liberia. Musu Kpakar, a community health worker, administers a rapid finger-stick test to see if malaria parasites are present in John’s blood. Because malaria … [Read more...] about Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress