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Digital Health–Enabled Community-Centered Care: Scalable Model to Empower Future Community Health Workers Using Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence

JMIR Formative Research, 2022
Digital health–enabled community-centered care (D-CCC) represents a pioneering vision for the future of community-centered care. D-CCC aims to support and amplify the digital footprint of community health workers through a novel artificial ...
Sarah M Rodrigues, Anil Kanduri, Adeline Nyamathi, Nikil Dutt, Pramod Khargonekar, Amir M Rahmani   +5 more
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Can volunteer community health workers decrease child morbidity and mortality in southwestern Uganda? An impact evaluation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: The potential for community health workers to improve child health in sub-Saharan Africa is not well understood. Healthy Child Uganda implemented a volunteer community health worker child health promotion model in rural Uganda.
Jennifer L Brenner, Jerome Kabakyenga, Teddy Kyomuhangi, Kathryn A Wotton, Carolyn Pim, Moses Ntaro, Fred Norman Bagenda, Ndaruhutse Ruzazaaza Gad, John Godel, James Kayizzi, Douglas McMillan, Edgar Mulogo, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Nalini Singhal   +13 more
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The Terminology of Community Health Workers

American Journal of Public Health, 2016
Letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "Effects of community-based health worker interventions to improve chronic disease management and care among vulnerable populations: a systematic review," by K. Kim, J.S. Choi and E. Choi, which appeared in volume 106, number 4 during 2016.
Ashley, Wennerstrom, Carl H, Rush
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Design of a randomized controlled trial of digital health and community health worker support for diabetes management among low-income patients

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2022
Background: Insulin-dependent diabetes is a challenging disease to manage and involves complex behaviors, such as self-monitoring of blood glucose. This can be especially challenging in the face of socioeconomic barriers and in the wake of the COVID-19 ...
Rory Harte, Lindsey Norton, Christina Whitehouse, Ilona Lorincz, Denerale Jones, Norma Gerald, Irene Estrada, Carolyn Sabini, Nandita Mitra, Judith A. Long, Joseph Cappella, Karen Glanz, Kevin G. Volpp, Shreya Kangovi   +13 more
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The implementation and effectiveness of multi-tasked, paid community health workers on maternal and child health: A cluster-randomized pragmatic trial and qualitative process evaluation in Tanzania.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023
Community health worker programs have proliferated worldwide based on evidence that they help prevent mortality, particularly among children. However, there is limited evidence from randomized studies on the processes and effectiveness of implementing ...
Colin Baynes, Almamy Malick Kanté, Amon Exavery, Kassimu Tani, Gloria Sikustahili, Hildegalda Mushi, Jitihada Baraka, Kate Ramsey, Kenneth Sherr, Bryan J Weiner, James F Phillips   +10 more
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Improving access to maternal health services among rural hard-to-reach fishing communities in Uganda, the role of community health workers

Women's Health, 2022
Objectives: To explore whether community health worker household-based maternal health visits improve antenatal care and skilled birth attendance among hard-to-reach fishing villages on Lake Victoria, Uganda.
Ali Ssetaala, Julius Ssempiira, Mathias Wambuzi, Gertrude Nanyonjo, Brenda Okech, Kundai Chinyenze, Bernard Bagaya, Matt A Price, Noah Kiwanuka, Olivier Degomme   +9 more
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Decolonizing Global Health: Increasing Capacity of Community Health Worker Programs

Annals of Global Health, 2023
Many global health volunteer experiences and research projects are focused on the needs of the host country participants, which perpetuates a sovereign or superior relationship towards low- or middle-income countries (LMIC).
Pamela Avila
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The effectivity role of community mental health worker for rehabilitation of mental health illness: A systematic review

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021
Background: The effectivity role of community mental health worker (CMHWs) has several important gaps in the service provision at the community level. This study aimed to explain community mental health workers' effectivity role for the rehabilitation of
Liana Liana, Heni Dwi Windarwati
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Improving oral health in migrant and underserved populations: evaluation of an interactive, community-based oral health education program in Washington state

BMC Oral Health, 2019
Objectives Oral health is one of the greatest unmet health needs of migrant farmworkers and many migrant workers lack basic oral health knowledge. This paper presents evaluation results for an oral health education program designed to both increase ...
Ileana Ponce-Gonzalez, Allen Cheadle, Gino Aisenberg, Laura Flores Cantrell   +3 more
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Increasing return-to-work among people on sick leave due to common mental disorders: design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a problem-solving intervention versus care-as-usual conducted in the Swedish primary health care system (PROSA)

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Common mental disorders affect about one-third of the European working-age population and are one of the leading causes of sick leave in Sweden and other OECD countries. Besides the individual suffering, the costs for society are high.
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Kristina Holmgren, Ute Bültmann, Hanna Gyllensten, Jan Hagberg, Lars Sandman, Gunnar Bergström   +6 more
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