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Processes for Implementing Community Health Worker Workforce Development Initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Introduction: The objective of this observational, cross-sectional study was to identify, document, and assess the progress made to date in implementing various processes involved in statewide community health worker (CHW) workforce development ...
Colleen Barbero, Theresa Mason, Carl Rush, Meredith Sugarman, Aunima R. Bhuiya, Erika B. Fulmer, Jill Feldstein, Naomi Cottoms, Ashley Wennerstrom, Ashley Wennerstrom   +9 more
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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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A Review of Generalist and Specialist Community Health Workers for Delivering Adolescent Health Services in sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2013
The health of adolescents is increasingly seen as an important international priority because the world's one point eight billion young people (aged 10 to 24 years) accounts for 15.5% of the global burden of disease and are disproportionately located in ...
Norris, Shane A, Koon, Adam D, Goudge, Jane, Adam D Koon, Jane Goudge, Shane A Norris   +5 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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Community health workers in Gazankulu

Curationis, 1989
The aim of this paper is to give a brief description of the utilization of community health workers (CHWs) in Gazankulu. The general policy framework in which these health workers function is described briefly, and the way in which these workers function evaluated.
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Community Health Shop

, 2001
To create a Community Health Shop which would be open to all in the community, providing health information sessions, health checks in both the pharmacy and community setting and linking in with the existing lay health worker scheme. â€
Communith Development Health Network
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The effects of health worker motivation and job satisfaction on turnover intention in Ghana : a cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2014
Motivation and job satisfaction have been identified as key factors for health worker retention and turnover in low- and middle-income countries. District health managers in decentralized health systems usually have a broadened 'decision space' that ...
Akweongo, Patricia, Aikins, Moses, Bonenberger, Marc, Wyss, Kaspar   +3 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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Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
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