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Measuring motivation among close-to-community health workers: developing the CTC Provider Motivational Indicator Scale across six countries

Human Resources for Health, 2020
Background Close-to-community (CTC) health service providers are a cost-effective and important resource in the promotion of and increasing access to health services.
Frédérique Vallières, Maryse Kok, Ilias Mahmud, Malabika Sarker, Philippa Jeacocke, Robinson Karuga, Licia Limato, Aschenaki Z. Kea, Kingsley Chikaphupha, Mohsin Sidat, Brynne Gilmore, Miriam Taegtmeyer   +11 more
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The implementation of a community-centered first aid education program for older adults—community health workers perceived barriers

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Older adults are a high-risk group for accidental injuries, and strengthening training in first aid for older adults can improve their first aid capabilities and minimize their post-accident mortality. Community health workers are the greatest
Guo Yin, Linghui Chen, Yuanrong Wu, Fei Zhao, Qian Zhu, Siting Lin   +5 more
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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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Accuracy of assessment of eligibility for early medical abortion by community health workers in Ethiopia, India and South Africa [PDF]

, 2016
To assess the accuracy of assessment of eligibility for early medical abortion by community health workers using a simple checklist toolkit.; Diagnostic accuracy study.; Ethiopia, India and South Africa.; Two hundred seventeen women in Ethiopia, 258 in ...
Sen, Swapnaleen, Nguyen, My Huong, Mesganaw Fantahun Afework, Habib, Ndema, Mesganaw Fantahun Afework (395786), Lema, Hailu Yeneneh, Jennifer Moodley (843363), Hailu Yeneneh Lema, Bela Ganatra (843359), Deborah Constant (843365), Iyengar, Kirti, Swapnaleen Sen, My Huong Nguyen, Heidi Bart Johnston, Ganatra, Bela, Jane Harries (843362), Hailu Yeneneh Lema (843364), Heidi Bart Johnston (843358), Moodley, Jennifer, Harries, Jane, Ndema Habib (843361), Kirti Iyengar (790899), Constant, Deborah, Deborah Constant, Jennifer Moodley, Kirti Iyengar, Swapnaleen Sen (843366), Jane Harries, Afework, Mesganaw Fantahun, My Huong Nguyen (843360), Johnston, Heidi Bart, Bela Ganatra, Ndema Habib   +32 more
core   +1 more source

Sex work community participation in criminalized environments: a community-based cohort study of occupational health impacts in Vancouver, Canada: 2010–2019

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Sex work criminalization and occupational stigma pose barriers to sex workers’ access to support services, including community participation — engagement with sex work specific community organizing at both formalized and grassroots capacities.
Jennie Pearson, Kate Shannon, Bronwyn McBride, Andrea Krüsi, Sylvia Machat, Melissa Braschel, Shira Goldenberg   +6 more
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Association between Emotional Intelligence and Quality of Service Delivery of Health Care Providers

تحقیقات سلامت در جامعه, 2021
Introduction and purpose: Emotional intelligence has a crucial role in organizational performance, especially in the health domains facing high levels of emotions and challenges.
Sima Jalali, Sareh Shakerian
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The Development of a Novel, Standards-Based Core Curriculum for Community Facing, Clinic-Based Community Health Workers

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Introduction: Historically, CHW trainings have been developed to support community-based CHWs. When CHWs have been trained to engage with patients, typically such trainings have been for short term grant funded projects, focusing on a specific health ...
Sheba George, Sheba George, Lucero Silva, Myra Llamas, Irma Ramos, Justin Joe, Juan Mendez, Rosalva Salazar, Jim Tehan, Tatiana Vasquez, Schetema Nealy, Hector Balcazar   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of the community health worker model in adult asthma and COPD in the U.S.: a systematic review

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019
Background With rising medical costs, stakeholders and healthcare professionals are exploring community-based solutions to relieve the burden of chronic diseases and reduce health care spending. The community health worker (CHW) model is one example that
Trisha M. Parekh, Carla R. Copeland, Mark T. Dransfield, Andrea Cherrington   +3 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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Evidence‐Informed Multidisciplinary Consensus Guidance for the Psychosocial Care of Adolescents With High‐Risk Cancer: Recommendations From the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom, Dorella Scarponi, Giulia Zucchetti, Teresa Perillo, Maria Montanaro, Elisa Marconi, Chiara Rutigliano, Paolo Colavero, Paola Quarello, Marina Bertolotti, Monica Cellini, Carlo Clerici, Maurizio Mascarin, Francesca Bomben, Andrea Ferrari, the expert workgroup   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source