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Measuring client trust in community health workers: A multi-country validation study
Journal of Global Health, 2021 Background Client trust in community health workers (CHWs) is integral for improving quality and equity of community health systems globally. Despite its recognized conceptual and pragmatic importance across health areas, there are no quantitative ...
Pooja Sripad +5 more
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Human Resources for Health, 2020 Background Close-to-community (CTC) health service providers are a cost-effective and important resource in the promotion of and increasing access to health services.
Frédérique Vallières +11 more
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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 There is now rapidly growing global awareness of the potential of large-scale community health worker (CHW) programmes not only for improving population health but, even more importantly, for accelerating the achievement of universal health coverage and ...
J. Zulu, H. Perry
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS: FOUR LESSONS FROM INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF COMMUNITY-BASED WORKERS
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2007 Although the Department of Health has been using community health workers since 1994 (Friedman, 2002), it was not until 2003 that the South African government introduced the Community Development Workers Initiative (Department of Provincial and Local ...
Deidré van Rooyen
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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Older adults are a high-risk group for accidental injuries, and strengthening training in first aid for older adults can improve their first aid capabilities and minimize their post-accident mortality. Community health workers are the greatest
Guo Yin +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Introduction: Historically, CHW trainings have been developed to support community-based CHWs. When CHWs have been trained to engage with patients, typically such trainings have been for short term grant funded projects, focusing on a specific health ...
Sheba George +11 more
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Developing Primary Liaison Psychiatric Services for HIV/AIDS Patients in Community [PDF]
, 2017 In Indonesia, the number of HIV/AIDS patients has grown at significant level. HIV can be a source of major stress which can lead to changes in mental health, such as persistent sadness, feeling empty and anxiety. The ability of liaison officer could help
Ahsan, A. (Ahsan), Lestari, R. (Retno)
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Patient and Community Health Worker Perceptions of Community Health Worker Clinical Integration [PDF]
Journal of Community Health, 2018 Traditional community health workers (CHWs) are expanding their role into clinical settings (cCHW) to support patients with care coordination and advocacy services. We investigated the potential to integrate cCHWs, via evaluation of patients' and CHWs' key demographics, needs, and abilities.
Charlotte M. Lewis +4 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2021 Background Little is known about the contribution of community health posts and community health workers (CHWs) to geographical accessibility of primary healthcare (PHC) services at community level and strategies for optimising geographical accessibility
N. Oliphant +12 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019 Background With rising medical costs, stakeholders and healthcare professionals are exploring community-based solutions to relieve the burden of chronic diseases and reduce health care spending. The community health worker (CHW) model is one example that
Trisha M. Parekh +3 more
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