Reproductive Health, 2021 Plain Language Summary Maternal mortality is an important public health problem in Mozambique. Delays in reaching health facilities and insufficient health care professionals call for innovative community-level solutions. We conducted a study to describe
Esperança Sevene +12 more
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Community Health Workers and Promotores in California [PDF]
, 2004 Provides an overview of, and describes the challenges facing, the emerging workforce of public health professionals who carry out a variety of health promotion, case management, and service delivery activities at the community ...
Catherine Dower +2 more
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Frontline Health Workers: The Best Way to Save Lives, Accelerate Progress on Global Health, and Help Advance U.S. Interests [PDF]
, 2012 Argues for training, equipping, and supporting community-based health workers, midwives, pharmacists, nurses, and doctors who provide care for rural populations in the developing world as a cost-efficient way to advance global health and ...
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Kesehatan Seksual Dan Reproduksi Serta Fasilitas Kesehatan Di Lokasi Prostitusi: Community Based Participatory Research Dengan Photovoice Pada Pekerja Seksual Di Gunung Lawu, Bali [PDF]
, 2016 Sex workers are victims of prostitution because prostitution endangers their physical, social, and psychological health; therefore, a movement/action that empowers the community in protecting the physical, social, and psychological health of sex workers ...
Lestari, M. D. (Made) +2 more
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Community learning and development training for professionals engaged in community regeneration and community planning [PDF]
, 2005 The study was commissioned by the Scottish Executive Development Department to identify training needs and current provision of community learning and development (CLD) training for a range of professionals (other than those formally qualified in CLD ...
Barr, A. +3 more
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Occupational Health and Safety Policy Compliance among Community Health Workers in Western Kenya
Pan-African Journal of Health and Environmental Science, 2023 Background: Compliance with occupational health and safety policies, monitoring, and evaluation are critical components of a safe workplace. Occupational hazards among community health workers have rarely been studied.
Fletcher Njororai +3 more
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Factors affecting the performance of community health workers in India: a multi-stakeholder perspective [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: Community health workers (CHWs) form a vital link between the community and the health department in several countries. In India, since 2005 this role is largely being played by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), who are village ...
Reetu Sharma +2 more
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Valuing Good Health: An Estimate of Costs and Savings for the Healthy Families Act [PDF]
, 2005 The Healthy Families Act (HFA) would ensure that all eligible workers have a minimum of seven days of paid time off annually to take care of their own health needs and those of members of their families.
Vicky Lovell
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Fighting Novel Diseases amidst Humanitarian Crises [PDF]
, 2019 Humanitarian crises are becoming more prevalent and, frequently, more complex, in zones of mis-governance, lack of government presence, and even active conflict, marked by public mistrust and insecurity. The WHO and other health emergency responders lack
Friedman, Eric A. +2 more
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The Terminology of Community Health Workers
American Journal of Public Health, 2016 Letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "Effects of community-based health worker interventions to improve chronic disease management and care among vulnerable populations: a systematic review," by K. Kim, J.S. Choi and E. Choi, which appeared in volume 106, number 4 during 2016.
Ashley, Wennerstrom, Carl H, Rush
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