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The public healthcare sector of Mauritius: knowledge of and attitudes toward hearing loss among community health workers

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2023
Mauritius does not have community health workers trained in identifying risk factors for hearing loss or in referring patients for diagnostic testing.
Taslima Foondun, Lidia Pottas, Maggi Soer   +2 more
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Community health workers in Lesotho: Experiences of health promotion activities

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2018
Background: Lesotho adopted primary health care in 1979, and community health workers (CHWs) were included in the programme to focus on health promotion, particularly to reach people in underserved rural areas.
Thato Seutloali, Lizeka Napoles, Nomonde Bam   +2 more
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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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Community health workers in Sergipe, Brazil : Implications for their future role in maternal and child health [PDF]

Every year six million children die worldwide due to diseases that are easily preventable or curable. Interventions to reduce the number of deaths are offered by health facilities, yet many children continue to die at home without receiving any type of ...
Cesar, Juraci A
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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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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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Can smartphones and tablets improve the management of childhood illness in Tanzania? A qualitative study from a primary health care worker’s perspective [PDF]

, 2015
The impact of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy has been less than anticipated because of poor uptake. Electronic algorithms have the potential to improve quality of health care in children. However, feasibility studies about
Amani Flexson Shao, Clotilde Rambaud-Althaus, Swai, N., Judith Kahama-Maro, D’Acremont, Valerie, Valerie D’Acremont, Constanze Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer, Constanze, D'Acremont, V., Pfeiffer, C., Shao, A.F., Kahama-Maro, J., D'Acremont, Valerie, Blaise Genton, Shao, Amani Flexson, Rambaud-Althaus, Clotilde, Ndeniria Swai, Kahama-Maro, Judith, Rambaud-Althaus, C., Genton, B., Swai, Ndeniria, Genton, Blaise   +21 more
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Comparing the Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave of Different Categories of Health Workers in Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa. [PDF]

, 2013
Job satisfaction is an important determinant of health worker motivation, retention, and performance, all of which are critical to improving the functioning of health systems in low- and middle-income countries.
Normand, Charles, Fresier Maseko, Chirwa, Maureen, Mwisongo, Aziza, Ditlopo, Prudence, Prudence Ditlopo, Duane Blaauw, Maseko, Fresier, Blaauw, Duane, Steve Thomas, Charles Normand, Aziza Mwisongo, Thomas, Steve, Posy Bidwell, Maureen Chirwa, Bidwell, Posy   +15 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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