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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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Community Development Health Network

, 2009
The Community Development and Health Network (CDHN) aim to end health inequalities using a community development approach - campaigning, influencing policy and developing best practice work which shows that communities, both geographical and of interest &
Community Health Development Network
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Health Workers' Performance in the Implementation of Patient Centred Tuberculosis Treatment (PCT) Strategy Under Programmatic Conditions in Tanzania: A Cross Sectional Study. [PDF]

, 2013
Patient Centred Tuberculosis Treatment (PCT) is a promising treatment delivery strategy for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). It aims to improve adherence to treatment by giving patients the choice of having drug intake supervised at the health facility ...
Alexander Schulze, Mbaraka Amuri, Eveline Geubbels, Abdallah Mkopi, Amuri, Mbaraka, Frank van Leth, Fred Lwilla, Mkopi, Abdallah, Egwaga, Saidi, van Leth, Frank, Schulze, Alexander, Nyagosya Range, Saidi Egwaga, Geubbels, Eveline, Range, Nyagosya, Lwilla, Fred   +15 more
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community health workers and mobile technology: a systematic review of the literature.

PLoS ONE, 2013
IntroductionIn low-resource settings, community health workers are frontline providers who shoulder the health service delivery burden. Increasingly, mobile technologies are developed, tested, and deployed with community health workers to facilitate ...
Rebecca Braun, Caricia Catalani, Julian Wimbush, Dennis Israelski   +3 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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Improving health and well-being through community health champions: a thematic evaluation of a programme in Yorkshire and Humber. [PDF]

, 2013
AIMS: The contribution that lay people can make to the public health agenda is being increasingly recognised in research and policy literature. This paper examines the role of lay workers (referred to as 'community health champions') involved in ...
White, J, South, J, Woodall, J
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Exercise Capacity, Physical Activity, Fatigue, and Neurocognitive Function in Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of reduced exercise capacity, decreased physical activity levels, persistent fatigue, and neurocognitive deficits. The aim was to investigate exercise capacity and physical activity levels of adult survivors of childhood ALL and their associations with ...
Laura Jess, Gustaf Glavå, Simon Skau, Hans‐Georg Kuhn, Maria Bäck, Marianne Jarfelt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of community health workers and local leaders in reducing attrition among participant in the AIDS indicator survey and HIV incidence in a national cohort study in Rwanda

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Retention of participants in longitudinal prospective surveys can challenging for population health researchers. Community health workers (CHWs) may help reduce attrition.
Mwumvaneza Mutagoma, Dieudonné Sebuhoro, Jean Pierre Nyemazi, Edward J. Mills, Jamie I. Forrest, Eric Remera, Augustin Murindabigwi, Mouhamed Semakula, Sabin Nsanzimana   +8 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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