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Factors affecting the performance of community health workers in India: a multi-stakeholder perspective [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Community health workers (CHWs) form a vital link between the community and the health department in several countries. In India, since 2005 this role is largely being played by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), who are village ...
Reetu Sharma, Premila Webster, Sanghita Bhattacharyya   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Role and outcomes of community health workers in HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction: The provision of HIV treatment and care in sub-Saharan Africa faces multiple challenges, including weak health systems and attrition of trained health workers. One potential response to overcome these challenges has been to engage community
Grace W Mwai, Seeley, Janet, Janet Seeley, Gitau Mburu, Peter Frost, Mwai, Grace W., Ford, Nathan, Nathan Ford, Kwasi Torpey, Mburu, Gitau, Frost, Peter, Torpey, Kwasi, Kwasi, Torpey, Mwai, Grace W   +13 more
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Workforce Readiness Training: A Comprehensive Training Model That Equips Community Health Workers to Work at the Top of Their Practice and Profession

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Recent reports have recognized that only 20 percent of health outcomes are attributed to clinical care. Environmental conditions, behaviors, and social determinants of health account for 80 percent of overall health outcomes.
Lily K. Lee, Lily K. Lee, Elizabeth Ruano, Pamela Fernández, Silvia Ortega, Carlos Lucas, Maud Joachim-Célestin, Maud Joachim-Célestin, Maud Joachim-Célestin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Securing grassroots women land rights through socio-cultural changes

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
The Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa endorsed through the adoption of the African Union Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges by the African Heads of States in 2009 is having “a strong gender component which aims at “strengthening ...
Mino Harivelo Ramaroson, Elisabeth Markham, Innocent Isaac, Frances Birungi, Violet Shivutse   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations.
Dulce J. Jiménez, Omar Gomez, Ruby Meraz, Amanda M. Pollitt, Linnea Evans, Naomi Lee, Matt Ignacio, Katherine Garcia, Richard Redondo, Floribella Redondo, Heather J. Williamson, Sabrina Oesterle, Sairam Parthasarathy, Samantha Sabo   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing infant and young child feeding priorities to inform the development of a nutrition social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) strategy during a pandemic threat

The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2022
Objectives: This study was undertaken to identify stakeholder needs and wants in relation to an Infant and Young Child Feeding, Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) strategy for the 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member ...
T Turk, A Poonawala, S Shulman, P Sepoloane   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Creating information resources and trainings for farmworker-serving community health workers

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2022
Background: Farmworker-serving community health workers have limited access to farmworker health research findings, training, and education resources. With funding from the National Library of Medicine, we are working to improve the health information ...
Jamie E. Bloss, Catherine E. LePrevost, Leslie E. Cofie, Joseph G. L. Lee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community health worker team integration in Medicaid managed care: Insights from a national study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionCommunity health workers (CHWs) have historically worked in community-based settings. Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are integrating CHWs into their teams, largely to support social determinants of health.
Ashley Wennerstrom, Ashley Wennerstrom, Catherine G. Haywood, Denise O. Smith, Dakshu Jindal, Carl Rush, Geoffrey W. Wilkinson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the front line of primary health care: the profile of community health workers in rural Quechua communities in Peru. [PDF]

, 2006
OBJECTIVE: To describe the profile of community health workers--health promoters, traditional birth attendants and traditional healers--in rural Quechua communities from Ayacucho, Peru. METHODS: Basic quantitative and qualitative information was gathered
Miranda J Jaime, Malca Rosa, Brown, R. P., Angela Brown, Zumaran Adriana, Brown Angela, Adriana Zumaran, Brown, Angela, Miranda, J Jaime, Malca, Rosa, Zumaran, Adriana, Rosa Malca, J Jaime Miranda, Bulman, T. J.   +13 more
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