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Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era: 11. CHWs Leading the Way to “Health for All” [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2021
AbstractBackgroundThis is the concluding paper of our 11-paper supplement, “Community health workers at the dawn of a new era”.MethodsWe relied on our collective experience, an extensive body of literature about community health workers (CHWs), and the other papers in this supplement to identify the most pressing challenges facing CHW programmes and ...
Simon Lewin   +2 more
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Recognizing the Need for Standardized Training for Community Health Workers (CHWs)

open access: yesReproductive, Female and Child Health, 2023
Abstract Introduction Despite global improvements in maternal health, disparities in maternal mortality rates in the United States have worsened in recent years. Community health workers (CHWs) as maternal health educators have previously been studied in low‐ and middle‐income countries ...
Shilpa Kalluru
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The Community Health Worker (CHW) Common Indicators Project: Engaging CHWs in Measurement to Sustain the Profession [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Despite progress in documenting the outcomes of Community Health Worker interventions, the lack of standardized measures to assess CHW practice has made it difficult for programs to conduct reliable evaluations, and impossible to aggregate data across programs and regions, impeding commitment to sustainable, long-term financing of CHW programs.
Noelle Wiggins
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Integrating Community Health Workers (CHWs) Into Health Care Organizations

Journal of Community Health, 2017
Health care organizations increasingly employ community health workers (CHWs) to help address growing provider shortages, improve patient outcomes, and increase access to culturally sensitive care among traditionally inaccessible or disenfranchised patient populations.
Julianne Payne
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Introduction: Why Community Health Workers (CHWs)?

2021
This introductory chapter describes Community Health Workers (CHWs), what they do, and why the CHW model should be fully engaged and embraced by the health and social services systems. This chapter uses the term Community Health Workers (CHWs) to describe a variety of titles that fall under the CHW umbrella; while there are numerous terms to describe ...
St. John, Julie Ann   +2 more
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