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An interview with Dr. Ram Shrestha:Supporting Community Health Workers- Where do we stand? (2014)
As a health professional, whenever I visit a rural village in a low-or middle-income country, several thoughts come to mind. Knowing that the formal health system usually ends at a health center, dispensary, or health post in these rural communities, does everyone in this village have access to health services?Read more…
How To Inspire Courage, Spur Action And Save Lives (2014)
April and early May are bookended by World Health Worker Week (April 7-11) and International Day of the Midwife (May 5) — two opportunities to recognize the invaluable contributions of health workers in saving and bettering the lives of our communities. The women and men who have been on myRead more…
Improved Data on Community Health Workers Critical to Achieving Global Health Goals (2014)
Cape Town, South Africa, September 29, 2014 – A new report finds that developing nations’ ability to deal with pressing health challenges like HIV/AIDS and ensuring maternal and newborn survival will be strengthened by creating a common definition for community health workers, as well as a core set of skillsRead more…
Counting Community Health Workers “Counts” (2014)
CONARKY, Guinea – How many community health workers (CHWs) are there? What are community health workers’ tasks? How can we more efficiently integrate CHWs into national health systems? Global public health leaders widely acknowledge that there are not enough health workers in the world. Tragically, this fact has been furtherRead more…
Using Mobile Phones to Train Healthworkers (2015)
Project The Health Enablement & Learning Platform (HELP) is a pilot project which harnesses Amref Health Africa’s understanding of African communities and their health needs, instantaneously delivering relevant health information to the mobile phones of community health workers (CHWs) in a cost-effective manner. A multidisciplinary partnership between Accenture, the AccentureRead more…
Exploring A Day In The Life Of Community Health Workers (2015)
In dozens of countries, tens of thousands of women and men get up each morning to travel miles over rough roads and across rivers and streams to provide primary health care in some of the world’s most remote, vulnerable, and hard-to-reach places. At any given moment, these people, known asRead more…
A Call to Scale-Up Community Health Workers (2015)
This post is co-authored with Sonia Sachs on behalf of the 1 Million CHW Campaign. Public health officials and practitioners from around Africa and from international public and private organizations, businesses, and universities, met in Accra, Ghana June 9-11 to consider ways to scale-up the coverage of high-quality community healthRead more…
One Million Community Health Workers Campaign Annouces Launch of CHW Profiles (2015)
Currently, it is difficult for the global community to assess the state of the world’s community health workers. How many community health workers are out there? Who do they work in partnership with? What services do they offer? How are national programs designed? What are the different components to lookRead more…
Valuing and Sustaining (or Not) the Ability of Volunteer Community Health Workers to Deliver Integrated Community Case Management in Northern Ghana: A Qualitative Study (2015)
This study sought to understand the experience of the integrated community case management of childhood illnesses (iCCM) program in Accra and the Northern Region of Ghana from the local UNICEF staff, their partners, researchers, CHWs and others. Results found that both mothers and facility level staff appreciated CHWs efforts toRead more…
Improving Maternal and Newborn Health: Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Program in Rural Kenya (2015)
This study looked at the effectiveness of CHW projects in rural Kenya that aimed to promote better maternal newborn health knowledge and to increase deliveries under skilled attendance. Some pieces of information that were examined included: relevant demographic items, knowledge about maternal and newborn health, and whether a retrospective birthRead more…
‘ Trust and teamwork matter ’ : Community health workers’ experiences in integrated service delivery in India (2015)
CHW experiences in Orissa, India go beyond the technical aspects of combining different health systems. Teamwork and building trust with the community were found to be pivotal parts of their practice. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) primary health care ideology conflicts with the narrow indicators of health system performanceRead more…
Community health workers of Afghanistan: a qualitative study of a national program (2015)
In 2003 a Basic Package of Health Services was designed to provide services to the rural population in Afghanistan. This descriptive, qualitative study examines the gender breakdown and effectiveness of the CHW workforce. As some of the 20,000 CHWs across the country move up the hierarchy of supervision and training,Read more…
Integrating national community-based health worker programmes into health systems: a systematic review identifying lessons learned from low-and middle-income countries (2015)
A systematic review of published research was conducted in order to understand factors that may influence the integration of national community-based health worker (CBHW) programs into low- and middle –income countries. Four programs – Brazil, Ethiopia, India, and Pakistan – met the inclusion criteria and were integrated into their specificRead more…
Global Health Content for Local Solutions: Consultations Synopsis (2015)
This report outlines a series of workshops convened by mPowering Frontline Health Workers and partners to consider whether the global health community is following the most beneficial route to provide relevant and effective health training for FLHWs. Focusing in particular on CHWs, who work directly in the communities they serve, theRead more…
Supporting close-to-community providers through a community health system approach: case examples from Ethiopia and Tanzania (2015)
Close-to-community (CTC) providers, including community health workers or volunteers or health extension workers, can be effective in promoting access to and utilization of health services. Tasks are often shifted to these providers with limited resources and support from CTC programmes or communities. The Community Health System Strengthening (CHSS) model isRead more…
What do community health workers have to say about their work, and how can this inform improved programme design? A case study with CHWs within Kenya (2015)
Community health workers (CHWs) are used increasingly in the world to address shortages of health workers and the lack of a pervasive national health system. However, while their role is often described at a policy level, it is not clear how these ideals are instantiated in practice, how best toRead more…
Supervising Illiterate Community Health Workers in South Sudan to Deliver Integrated Community Case Management Services for Newborns and Children (2015)
Improving and maintaining the clinical skills of frontline health workers over time is critical for strengthening health systems and providing adequate care to mothers, newborns, and children – supervision is widely recognized as a key to improving health worker performance. In Warrap State, South Sudan, a 13-month study was undertakenRead more…
Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development (2015)
Remarkable gains have been made in global health in the past 25 years, but progress has not been uniform. Mortality and morbidity from common conditions needing surgery have grown in the world’s poorest regions, both in real terms and relative to other health gains. At the same time, development ofRead more…
Becoming and remaining community health workers: Perspectives from Ethiopia and Mozambique (2013)
Many global health practitioners are currently reaffirming the importance of recruiting and retaining effective community health workers (CHWs) in order to achieve major public health goals. This raises policy-relevant questions about why people become and remain CHWs. This paper addresses these questions, drawing on ethnographic work in Addis Ababa, theRead more…
Using theory and formative research to design interventions to improve community health worker motivation, retention and performance in Mozambique and Uganda (2015)
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how a behavioural theory, which accounts for the influence of group identification, in combination with data generated from qualitative interviews with CHWs and stakeholders, can be used to inform the design of interventions to improve CHW motivation, retention and performance in twoRead more…
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