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Putting community health workers on the map: Toward a geography of community health workers

, 2022
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDIn many contexts community health workers (CHWs) are intended to expand the geographical accessibility of integrated primary health care (PHC) services at community level, including prevention, promotive, and curative health ...
Oliphant, Nicholas
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Using theory and formative research to design interventions to improve community health worker motivation, retention and performance in Mozambique and Uganda. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being used in low-income countries to address human resources shortages, yet there remain few effective, evidence-based strategies for addressing the enduring programmatic constraints of worker
Abel Muiambo, Zelee Hill, Karin Källander, Källander, Karin, Strachan, Daniel Llywelyn, Maureen Nakirunda, Muiambo, Abel, Hill, Zelee, Nakirunda, M, Nakirunda, Maureen, Källander, K, Hill, Z, null null, Daniel Llywelyn Strachan, Sozinho Ndima, Ndima, Sozinho, Ndima, S, Muiambo, A, inSCALE study group, Strachan, DL   +19 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 Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 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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Usage of and satisfaction with Integrated Community Case Management care in western Uganda: a cross-sectional survey

Malaria Journal, 2021
Background In some areas of Uganda, village health workers (VHW) deliver Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) care, providing initial assessment of children under 5 years of age as well as protocol-based treatment of malaria, pneumonia, and ...
James S. Miller, Palka Patel, Sara Mian-McCarthy, Andrew Christopher Wesuta, Michael Matte, Moses Ntaro, Shem Bwambale, Jessica Kenney, Geren S. Stone, Edgar Mugema Mulogo   +9 more
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Why do Health Workers in Rural Tanzania Prefer Public Sector Employment? [PDF]

, 2012
Severe shortages of qualified health workers and geographical imbalances in the workforce in many low-income countries require the national health sector management to closely monitor and address issues related to the distribution of health workers ...
Moland Karen Marie, Songstad Nils Gunnar, Moland, Karen Marie, Massay, Deodatus Amadeus, Karen Marie Moland, Astrid Blystad, Massay Deodatus Amadeus, Blystad Astrid, Deodatus Amadeus Massay, Songstad, Nils Gunnar, Nils Gunnar Songstad, Blystad, Astrid   +11 more
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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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