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Community Health Worker Requirements to Accelerate Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa: An Overview of Contemporary Estimates and Implications of Full-Time Versus Part-Time Working Arrangements

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Primary health care is the most effective approach to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and ensuring health security. In this approach, community health workers play a crucial role by delivering a comprehensive array of preventive, promotive, and
James Avoka Asamani PhD, Sunny C. Okoroafor PhD, Kasonde Mwinga MMed   +2 more
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“I cannot say no when a pregnant woman needs my support to get to the health centre”: involvement of community health workers in Rwanda’s maternal health

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background In Rwanda, maternal community health workers (M-CHWs) are involved in the country’s overall health system. In maternal health, their role includes the provision of preventive and promotional health services at the community level. They provide
Germaine Tuyisenge, Celestin Hategeka, Isaac Luginaah, David F. Cechetto, Stephen Rulisa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility of task-sharing with community health workers for the identification, emergency management and referral of women with pre-eclampsia, in Mozambique

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, Helena Boene, Marianne Vidler, Anifa Valá, Salésio Macuacua, Orvalho Augusto, Quinhas Fernandes, Cassimo Bique, Eusébio Macete, Mohsin Sidat, Peter von Dadelszen, Khátia Munguambe, CLIP Feasibility Working Group   +12 more
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Community Health Workers—Practice and Promise

American Journal of Public Health, 2011
The article discusses various reports which are published within the issue and are all concerned with community health workers, including one by Balcazar on the contributions that community health workers make to public health.
Stewart J, Landers, Gabriel N, Stover
openaire   +3 more sources

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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"Workhood"-A Useful Concept for the Analysis of Health Workers' Resources? An Evaluation from Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
International debates on improving health system performance and quality of care are strongly coined by systems thinking. There is a surprising lack of attention to the human (worker) elements.
Gross, Karin, Pfeiffer, Constanze, Obrist, Brigit   +2 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Public Health Workforce Shortages Imperil Nation's Health [PDF]

, 2008
Examines from a community-based perspective the scope of the shortages in the public health workforce; contributing factors such as inadequate funding, salaries, and benefits; and strategies for training, recruiting, and retaining public health ...
Debra A. Draper, Johanna R. Lauer, Robert E. Hurley   +2 more
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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), Natalya, N. P. (Ni), Sulistiowati, N. M. (Ni)   +2 more
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