Background and Rationale Community health workers (CHWs) are vital to country strategies to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). As health systems come to rely on CHWs to deliver a growing number of interventions and activities, the potential for overburdening them with unrealistic expectations increases. Limited human and financial resources, combined with a … [Read more...] about The CHW Coverage and Capacity (C3) Tool
News
Assessing community health worker programme governance: A guiding framework
Background and Rationale Community health worker (CHW) programmes are complex entities, operating at the interface of the formal health system, households and communities, and involving a wide array of actors and relationships. The advent of the Millennium Development Goals saw a mushrooming of often poorly coordinated, disease-specific (HIV, TB, maternal-child health) … [Read more...] about Assessing community health worker programme governance: A guiding framework
Delivering Digital Educational Content for CHWs on a Global Scale
Background and Rationale Studies show that trained, high-performing, community health workers (CHWs) can save more than three million lives annually, when integrated into the primary health care system1. Unfortunately, many community health worker programs are plagued by ineffective and expensive training and support, making them difficult to implement at … [Read more...] about Delivering Digital Educational Content for CHWs on a Global Scale
The Community Health Planning and Costing Tool (CHPCT)
Background There is growing evidence on the benefits of comprehensive packages of community health services as a key strategy to promote healthy behavior and improve access to high-impact maternal, newborn, and child health interventions from pregnancy to adolescence. However, countries do not have a way to determine the cost and financing needs for these packages and, … [Read more...] about The Community Health Planning and Costing Tool (CHPCT)
CHWs Addressing Addiction
“Health for justice, justice for health” – these ideals outline the connection between health, human rights, and social justice. This is also the message the United Nations aims to promote through the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26th June 2019. The opioid epidemic has progressed drastically in the United States since the 1990s. Drug … [Read more...] about CHWs Addressing Addiction
