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Role and Effectiveness of Community Health Workers among Underserved US Populations (2012)
This paper focuses on the role and documented effectiveness of CHWs in terms of quality, health care services, cost health services, as well as health behaviors and knowledge about the health care system among underserved populations in the United States. Sixty-five peer reviewed articles and publications were analyzed and compiledRead more…
Community Health Workers Versus Nurses as Counselors or Case Managers in a Self-Help Diabetes Management Program (2016)
In order to confirm the effectiveness of community health workers’ involvement as counselors or case managers in a self-help diabetes management program among Korean Americans in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, a randomized controlled trial was utilized. Different groups were counselled by either a CHW or an RN, with the CHW’sRead more…
Integrating Community Health Workers Within Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Implementation (2015)
With the introduction of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA), a unique opportunity to integrate community health worker models into health care delivery exists. This article discusses several different strategies for integrating CHW models within PPACA implementation through facilitated enrollment strategies, patient-centered medical homes, coordination and expansion ofRead more…
CHWs and Mental Health: Equipping community health workers with essential skills for addressing mental health and violence in the home (2016)
This full version of a previous feature goes into detail about CHWs and mental health. CHWs encounter psychosocial issues on a daily basis, but their training does not cover this area. This paper discusses the role CHWs can potentially fill in regards to mental health care, the evidence showing theRead more…
Primary Health Care: Expectations and Tasks for Public Health in Trinidad and Tobago (2016)
In order to achieve health for all by 2020, the government of Trinidad and Tobago emphasizes the promotion, protection, and improvement of its citizen’s health status by involving the community. For small island countries, community participation is key to capacity building and empowers people to take part in community development.Read more…
Impact of Community-Based DOT on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2016)
Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death throughout the globe, though treatment exists and is effective. In order to combat drug resistant tuberculosis, community-based directly observed treatment (DOT) is recommended by the World Health Organization, in which a supervisor observes the patient swallow their anti-tuberculosis medication. While highlyRead more…
Community-based Health Information Systems in the Global Context: a Review of the Literature (2016)
Increasingly, community health workers are being recognized for their ability to meet critical service gaps in health care systems and improve community health. In order to continue support the work of community workers, better community-based health information systems (CBHIS) are required. These systems involve data collection, management, and analysis ofRead more…
Can a community health worker administered postnatal checklist increase health-seeking behaviors and knowledge?: evidence from a randomized trial with a private maternity facility in Kiambu County, Kenya (2016)
A randomized trial evaluates the effectiveness of a CHW program in Kenya which implements home visits or calls to new mothers three days after delivery. Surveys were utilized to measure compliance, self-reported health problems, care-seeking behaviors, and postnatal knowledge and practices among new mothers who received one of three randomlyRead more…
AIM Health Programme End Line Programme Evaluation Report (2016)
World Vision’s Access – Infant and Maternal health (AIM Health) Program met its five-year goal of reducing infant and maternal mortality in most of the ten Area Development Program (ADP) sites in which it was implemented. The program is designed to change MNCH-related behaviors through targeted counseling by CHWs, implementedRead more…
Close-to-community providers of health care: increasing evidence of how to bridge community and health systems (2016)
Close-to-community (CTC) providers can help actualize universal health coverage and support the sustainable development goals, as described by a series of Human Resources for Health papers recently published. This editorial discusses the role of CTC providers in the community, strategies of support, and the necessity of such programs for improvingRead more…
Health worker experiences of and movement between public and private not-for-profit sectors—findings from post-conflict Northern Uganda (2016)
Using a life history approach, 26 Northern Ugandan health workers with experience working in the public and private not-for-profit (PNFP) sectors were interviewed to reveal their experiences both during and after the Northern Uganda conflict and to better understand what influenced these health workers to move between these two sectors.Read more…
A retrospective review of the Honduras AIN-C program guided by a community health worker performance logic model (2016)
Researchers attempted to review community-based Integrated Care of the Child (AIN-C), a growth-monitoring program, using a recently designed logic model proposing categories of support from both health sector and communities that influence community health worker performance and program outcomes. Retrospectively reviewing AIN-C using in-depth interviews, gaps in the logic modelRead more…
Changing Lives Through Social Accountability: Case Studies from World Vision’s UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) Programme Partnership Arrangement (2015)
Case studies in eleven countries including Zambia, Armenia, and Senegal, utilized World Vision’s social accountability approach, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), to address public service improvement. This approach aims to link community members and organizations with each other and also to link these communities with service providers, local governments, andRead more…
Family Planning Counseling in Your Pocket: A Mobile Job Aid for Community Health Workers in Tanzania (2016)
Using mobile job aids can help CHWs deliver integrated counseling on family planning and HIV/STI screening by following a step-by-step service delivery algorithm. Lessons learned during the pilot led to the development of additional features during scale-up to exploit the other major advantages that mHealth offers including: · Better supervision ofRead more…
Effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and child health in low– and middle–income countries: Systematic review and meta–analysis (2016)
Researchers reviewed 16 online international databases to identify studies evaluating the impact of mHealth interventions on MNCH outcomes in LMIC, between January 1990 and May 2014. Results showed that most studies of mHealth for MNCH in LMIC are of poor methodological quality and few have evaluated impacts of patient outcomes.Read more…
Female Health Workers at the Doorstep: A Pilot of Community-Based Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Service Delivery in Northern Nigeria (2016)
Deployment of resident female Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) to a remote rural community led to major and sustained increases in service utilization, including antenatal care and facility-based deliveries. Key components for success include: 1) providing an additional rural residence allowance to help recruit and retain CHEWs; 2) posting theRead more…
CHW Home Visit: Malaria Case (video) (2016)
In this video, community health workers partake in a home visit for a case of malaria.
Utilization of Community-based Health Information Systems in Decision Making and Health Action in Nyalenda, Kisumu County, Kenya (2014)
Information should form the backbone of decisions that effect change in all areas. It is, therefore, paramount in health, for information to be used for decision making. In effect, this will bring about equity in health resource allocation. The development of comprehensive community-based health information systems is increasingly becoming importantRead more…
Unlocking the community health workforce potential, post-Ebola: what models and strategies work? (2016)
The Ebola pandemic of 2014-16 demonstrated the crucial role of the community health workforce in preventing, responding to, and effectively treating health emergencies. As the West Africa region rebuilds its health systems after Ebola, countries and communities have identified a need to develop strategies and plans to embed the roleRead more…
The effectiveness of Technology-assisted Cascade Training and Supervision of community health workers in delivering the Thinking Healthy Program for perinatal depression in a post-conflict area of Pakistan: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2016)
Rates of perinatal depression in low and middle-income countries are reported to be very high. Perinatal depression not only has a profound impact on women’s health, disability and functioning, it is associated with poor child health outcomes such as pre-term birth, under-nutrition, and stunting, which ultimately have an adverse trans-generationalRead more…
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