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Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience – capitalizing on new opportunities

Human Resources for Health, 2009
Low-income countries with high HIV/AIDS burdens in sub-Saharan Africa must deal with severe shortages of qualified human resources for health. This situation has triggered the renewed interest in community health workers, as they may play an important ...
Schouten Erik, Pariyo George W, Van Damme Wim, Hermann Katharina, Assefa Yibeltal, Cirera Anna, Massavon William   +6 more
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Defining case management and outreach: perspectives from community health workers in New Mexico

Cogent Social Sciences
Case management (CM) is increasingly used in community settings to support individuals as they transition from one point in their lives to the next.
Mayra Perez, Venice Ceballos, Nathaniel Rubio, Jennifer Garcia, Delfino Rubi, Alejandra Cabrera, Kelley Milligan, Allyson Kelley   +7 more
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“We're on the ground, we know what needs to be done”: Exploring the role of Aboriginal Health Workers in primary health care

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundAboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) are core providers of primary health care (PHC) for First Nations peoples in Australia. However, the national AHW workforce is aging and in short supply. There is a poor understanding of the factors contributing
Ragavi Jeyakumar, Ragavi Jeyakumar, Bindu Patel, Julieann Coombes, Ty Madden, Rohina Joshi, Rohina Joshi, Rohina Joshi   +7 more
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200 Assessing Pre-Diabetes Knowledge, Attitudes, & Needs: A Study of the CHW Translational Advisory Board of South Texas

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: The CHW TAB is exploring pre-diabetes knowledge and perceived needs in south Texas to facilitate the role of CHWs to increase the capacity of community members to better manage their prediabetes diabetes risk. The long-term goal of this
Elisabeth de la Rosa, Paula Winkler, Ariel Gomez, Belinda Flores, Ludivina Hernandez, Sharon Elwin, Virginia Lopez, April Kneuper, Vanessa Ortiz, Martha Flores, Raquel Romero, Kathryn E. Kanzler   +11 more
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Community Health Worker programmes’ integration into national health systems: Scoping review

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2023
Background: Community health worker (CHW) programmes, when adequately integrated into mainstream health systems, can provide a viable, affordable and sustainable path to strengthened health systems that better meets demands for improved child health ...
Lucia M. Mupara, John J.O. Mogaka, William R. Brieger, Joyce M. Tsoka-Gwegweni   +3 more
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Community health workers and transitions of care [PDF]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2021
This editorial comments on the article by Ohuabunwa et al .
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Planetary health and the role of community health workers

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
In this era, grand challenges lies in biodiversity loss, climate change, and global noncommunicable diseases signify that planet and humanity are in crisis. Scholarly evidence from human and animal kingdom suggest that there is an optimism in planetary health which can provide a unique and novel concept where efforts toward survival and remediation can
Manas R Behera, Deepanjali Behera, Sudhir K Satpathy   +2 more
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Improving access to care and community health in Haiti with optimized community health worker placement

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
The national deployment of polyvalent community health workers (CHWs) is a constitutive part of the strategy initiated by the Ministry of Health to accelerate efforts towards universal health coverage in Haiti. Its implementation requires the planning of
Clara Champagne, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar, Paul Auxila, Giulia Perrone, Marvin Plötz, Alyssa Young, Samuel Bazaz Jazayeri, Harriet G. Napier, Arnaud Le Menach, Katherine Battle, Punam Amratia, Ewan Cameron, Jean-Patrick Alfred, Yves-Gaston Deslouches, Emilie Pothin   +14 more
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Reproductive behaviors among school-based health center clients in New Mexico

Frontiers in Reproductive Health
IntroductionSchool-based health centers (SBHCs) are an evidence-based model for providing contraceptives to adolescents. SBHCs ability to provide reproductive health services is often limited by school district policies, state laws, and health center ...
Mayra Perez, Allyson Kelley
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Evaluating the effect of village health workers on hospital admission rates and their economic impact in the Kingdom of Bhutan

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Village health workers (VHWs) in Bhutan play an all-encompassing role in supporting the health of their communities. Recent reports from the Bhutan Ministry of Health have indicated a sharp reduction in the number of working VHWs. As such, our
Sacha C. Hauc, Dolley Tshering, Josemari Feliciano, Agata M. P. Atayde, Layla M. Aboukhater, Kinley Dorjee, Tshering Dukpa, Pema Rinchen, Neema Yoezer, Casey M. Luc, Rup N. Adhikari, Kezang Lhamo, Kaveh Khoshnood   +12 more
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