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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 Community health worker (CHW) programmes are again receiving more attention in global health, as reflected in important recent WHO guidance. However, there is a risk that current CHW programme efforts may result in disappointing performance if those ...
S. Hodgins +6 more
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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Programme financing
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 This is the fourth of our 11-paper supplement on “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Here, we first make the case for investing in health programmes, second for investing in human resources for health, third for investing in primary ...
Lizah Masis +4 more
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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 8. Incentives and remuneration
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 This is the eighth in our series of 11 papers on “CHWs at the Dawn of a New Era”. Community health worker (CHW) incentives and remuneration are core issues that affect the performance of individual CHWs and the performance of the overall CHW programme. A
C. Colvin, Steve Hodgins, H. Perry
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Feasibility of Training Community Health Workers in the Detection of Oral Cancer
JAMA Network Open, 2022 Key Points Question Is it feasible for community health workers to screen for oral cancer using a mobile application capturing system? Findings In this cross-sectional study, 1200 participants were screened and the findings were compared with those of a ...
Vipin Thampi +10 more
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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 Community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in grassroots healthcare and are essential for achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.
M. Afzal, G. Pariyo, Z. Lassi, H. Perry
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The critical importance of community health workers as first responders to COVID-19 in USA
Health Promotion International, 2021 COVID-19 has served to exacerbate existing health disparities and inequities, most—if not all—of which can be traced to the social determinants of health (SDOH) that affect specific populations and communities. Essential to health and health systems long
Rahbel Rahman, A. Ross, R. Pinto
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Community health workers for pandemic response: a rapid evidence synthesis
BMJ Global Health, 2020 Introduction Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), affects 213 countries or territories globally. We received a request from National Health Systems Resource Centre, a public agency in India, to conduct rapid evidence synthesis (RES) on community health ...
S. Bhaumik +4 more
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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 7. Recent advances in supervision
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 Supervision is essential for optimizing performance and motivation of community health workers (CHWs). This paper, the seventh in our series, “Community health workers at the dawn of a new era”, supplements the existing evidence on CHW supervision in low-
Carey Westgate +3 more
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Perception of Community Health Workers in Indonesia Toward Patients with Mental Disorders [PDF]
, 2016 In Indonesia, there are any community health volunteers called Kader. Although Kaders are members of mental health volunteer, they sometimes show negative attitude to psychotic persons, even they have already got some training about mental health.
Kageyama, T. (Takayuki) +1 more
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Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response
BMJ Global Health, 2020 COVID-19 disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable. Community health workers are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic, especially in countries with less resilient health systems.
Madeleine Ballard +31 more
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