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The contribution of female community health volunteers (FCHVs) to maternity care in Nepal: a qualitative study (2017)
This study looks at a group of community health workers know as Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) and their role in reducing the maternal mortality ratio in Nepal.
Improving data quality in community health programmes: Recommendations from inter-country research (2018)
This brief discusses how to improve data quality in community health programmes and references the role of community health volunteers in data collection.
Podcast: Community Health Workers with Shreya Kangovi & Lisa Kidd from the Penn Center for CHWs (2018)
This is the first episode of the Review of Systems podcast, which is done in partnership with Harvard Center for Primary Care. The first guest is Shreya Kangovie, a researcher of community health worker (CHW) interventions who developed a multi-stakeholder team-based CHW model called IMPaCT (Individualized Management towards Patient-Centered Targets). Lisa Kidd isRead more…
Volunteers in Ethiopia’s women’s development army are more deprived and distressed than their neighbors: crosssectional survey data from rural Ethiopia (2018)
This study examines deprivation and wellbeing among community health workers in Ethiopia’s Women’s Development Army.
“Self-development matters” – Perception of Sakhis (CHWs) assessing self-development outcomes of their participation in the HBNC Program (2018)
This qualitative study looks at the perceptions of community health workers on the outcomes of the Home-Based Neonatal Care Program in India. The authors found that having local women participate in development programs results in both the potential for self-development and the program objective.
Malaria training for community health workers in the setting of elimination: a qualitative study from China (2018)
This qualitative study uses interviews to examine the perceptions and expectations of community health workers on malaria training programs in China.
Abortion Care in Nepal, 15 Years After Legalization: Gaps in Access, Equity, and Quality (2017)
This paper discusses the role of community health workers in facilitating safe, legal abortions and addressing the stigma surrounding abortions.
A rights-based approach to indoor air pollution (2013)
This paper discusses the role of community health workers in realizing the right to clean air. Nepal is used as an example of a human rights-based approach to address the issue of indoor air pollution.
Challenging orthodoxies: The road ahead for health and human rights (2013)
This blog examines human rights within the field of health care. Specific to community health workers (CHWs), it discusses the payment of CHWs within an ethical framework.
Quality of care in integrated community case management services in Bugoye, Uganda: a retrospective observational study (2018)
This retrospective observational study examined the quality of integrated community case management (iCCM) care given by village health workers in five villages in Bugoye subcounty in Uganda. For malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhoea the quality of care was high, though the overall quality of care was lower. There is an increase inRead more…
Community Health Workers: Addressing Client Objectives Among Frequent Emergency Department Users (2018)
This study examines the effectiveness of a community health worker (CHW) program, which aims to address client objectives for frequent emergency department users. 43% of total objectives were achieved and objective achievement was linked with increased client engagement. The authors offer several suggestions as to why the objective achievement was lowRead more…
Optimal mode for delivery of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Ouelessebougou, Mali: A cluster randomized trial (2018)
This research article examined the best way to deliver seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) treatment. The authors found that door-to-door delivery provided better coverage than fixed-point delivery, while directly observed therapy (which uses more resources) did not improve coverage. Community health workers deliver SMC treatment through door-to-door and fixed-point delivery.
The role of community health workers and local leaders in reducing attrition among participant in the AIDS indicator survey and HIV incidence in a national cohort study in Rwanda (2018)
This research paper found that community health workers play a role in reducing attrition rates in longitudinal prospective surveys.
Incidence and risk factors of neonatal infections in a rural Bangladeshi population: a community-based prospective study (2018)
This study investigate the impact of two umbilical cord cleansing regimens on neonatal morality and morbidity in a rural region in the Sylhet District of Bangladesh. The study used data from a previously performed community-based cluster-randomized trail. Community health workers checked the newborns for the first nine days of lifeRead more…
ANDALE Pittsburgh: results of a promotora-led, home-based intervention to promote a healthy weight in Latino preschool children (2018)
This study tested a 10 week home-based intervention by promotoras to promote a healthy weight in Latino preschool children. The intervention involved weekly 90 minute sessions to Latin families in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. At the follow-up, overweight and obese children had a significnat decrease in BMI. Post-intervention showed an increase inRead more…
The effectiveness of treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) delivered by community health workers compared to a traditional facility based model (2018)
While community health workers (CHWs) often identify and screen for severe acute malnutrition (SAM), this study looks at incorporating SAM treatment into the work of CHWs. The results from a randomized intervention study in Kita, Southwest Mali, indicated that with minimal training CHWs can treat SAM appropriately, which could result in lowerRead more…
An integrated community health worker intervention in rural Nepal: a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study protocol (2018)
This study protocol outlines the type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study that was used to test an integrated maternal and child health intervention based in the community health worker system in rural Nepal.
Time motion study using mixed methods to assess service delivery by frontline health workers from South India: methods (2018)
This article examines the performance of South Indian frontline health workers by analyzing their time management and identifying factors that affect their work. Around 6 or 7 hours were spent on any working day, rather than the expected 8 hours.
The effect of clustering on lot quality assurance sampling: a probabilistic model to calculate sample sizes for quality assessments (2013)
This paper uses a newly developed general framework to create a cluster lot quality assurance sampling (C-LQAS) system. This method for creating a C-LQAS system is used to design data quality assessments for a community health worker program in Rwanda.
Limitations on human rights in the context of drug-resistant tuberculosis: A reply to Boggio et al. (2009)
Trained community health workers can provide tuberculosis treatment and achieve results comparable to strict hospitalization.
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