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The ‘community’ in community case management of childhood illnesses in Malawi [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2016
Background: Malawi has achieved a remarkable feat in reducing its under-5 mortality in time to meet its MDG 4 target despite high levels of poverty, low female literacy rates, recurrent economic crises, a severe shortage of human resources for health ...
Wanga Z. Zembe-Mkabile, Debra Jackson, David Sanders, Donela Besada, Karen Daniels, Texas Zamasiya, Tanya Doherty   +6 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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Contribution of community health workers to surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases in the Obala health district

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
INTRODUCTION: The establishment of effective community-based surveillance is an essential objective of all disease surveillance systems. Several studies and reports have found that the situation is far from optimal in several developing countries such as
Marius Zambou Vouking, Thierry Binde, Carine Nouboudem Tadenfok, Jean Marie Edengue Ekani, Daniel Ekra   +4 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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Making ward-based outreach teams an effective component of human immunodeficiency virus programmes in South Africa

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2018
The implementation of ward-based outreach teams (WBOTs), comprised of community health workers (CHWs), is one of the three interventions of the South African National Department of Health’s (NDoH) Primary Health Care (PHC) Re-engineering strategy for ...
Nireshni Naidoo, Jean Railton, Geoffrey Jobson, Nthabiseng Matlakala, Gert Marincowitz, James A. McIntyre, Helen Struthers, Remco P.H. Peters   +7 more
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Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks, Molly Sonenklar, Cerelia Donald, Cecelia Valrie, Wally Smith, India Sisler   +5 more
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National Primary Care Policy (2017) and the roles of community health workers [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objective: To analyze the new roles of community health workers as outlined in the 2017 National Primary Care Policy (PNAB) from the perspectives of both nurses and community health workers.
Juliana Roza Dias, Sonia Acioli, Vanessa de Almeida Ferreira Corrêa, Inês Leoneza de Souza, Ricardo de Mattos Russo Rafael, Paulo Henrique de Almeida Rodrigues, Glaucia Bohusch   +6 more
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The roles, responsibilities and perceptions of community health workers and ward-based primary health care outreach teams: a scoping review

Global Health Action, 2020
Background Community health workers play important roles in rural primary health care settings. They work within ward-based primary health care outreach teams yet their roles are not always clearly defined and operationalized.
Euphemia Mbali Mhlongo, Elizabeth Lutge, Lateef Adepeju   +2 more
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Contribution of community health workers to primary health care performance in Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2020
OBJECTIVE To associate the strength of community health workers interventions with primary health care strategies for women’s and children’s health, diabetes, and hypertension.
Alaneir de Fátima dos Santos, Hugo André da Rocha, Ângela Maria de Lourdes Dayrell de Lima, Daisy Maria Xavier de Abreu, Érica Araújo Silva, Lucas Henrique Lobato de Araújo, Isabela Cristina Carreiro Cavalcante, Antônio Thomaz Gonzaga da Matta-Machado   +7 more
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