Hair Stylists as Lay Health Workers: Perspectives of Black Women on Salon-Based Health Promotion [PDF]
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2022 Lay health workers (LHWs) have been effective in delivering health promotion to underserved, vulnerable populations. Hair stylists are well positioned to serve as LHWs in addressing health disparities among Black women in the U.S.
Kelly N. B. Palmer PhD, MHS, CCRP +8 more
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Evaluation of lay health workers on quality of care in the inpatient setting. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 AimsTo evaluate the impact of a lay health worker support role in the inpatient setting.BackgroundHealthcare systems are facing critical nursing and nurse assistant staffing shortages.
Ramona Basnight +7 more
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Lay Health Workers Engaging Latino Fathers: A qualitative study. [PDF]
Child Youth Serv Rev, 2022 Behavioral Parent Training programs (BPTs) are evidence-based interventions that have been shown to be effective when implemented in various contexts and with different racial/ethnic minority families. Despite evidence showing their effectiveness within the Latinx community, disparities in access to BPTs still persist.
Gonzalez JC +3 more
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Lay health workers and HIV programmes: implications for health systems [PDF]
AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 2010 One of the consequences of massive investment in antiretroviral access and other AIDS programmes has been the rapid emergence of large numbers of lay workers in the health systems of developing countries. In South Africa, government estimates are 65,000, mostly HIV/TB care-related lay workers contribute their labour in the public health sector ...
Schneider, Helen, Lehmann, Uta
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The role of lay health workers in pediatric chronic disease: a systematic review. [PDF]
Acad Pediatr, 2013 Children with chronic diseases represent a high-cost and resource-intensive population of children. With continued gaps in chronic disease management and persistent fragmentation in the health care system, stakeholders are seeking new strategies to address the needs of these children.We sought to systematically assess the effectiveness of lay health ...
Raphael JL +3 more
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Child health interventions delivered by lay health workers to parents: A realist review [PDF]
Journal of Child Health Care, 2021 There is a growing body of evidence that lay health worker (LHW) interventions are a cost-effective model of care which can improve health outcomes and reduce the burden on existing health and community services. Nonetheless, there is a dearth of information to specify which intervention characteristics contribute to their success.
Wendy Gnich, Leigh Deas, Al Ross
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Cultural adaptation of psychological interventions for people with mental disorders delivered by lay health workers in Africa: scoping review and expert consultation [PDF]
International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2022 Background Lay Health Workers (LHW) are important providers of community mental health services and help mitigate access and treatment gaps in Africa. However, there is a paucity of knowledge about the role and performance of these workers, as well as ...
Dirceu Mabunda +8 more
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Task-shifting point-of-care CD4+ testing to lay health workers in HIV care and treatment services in Namibia [PDF]
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2017 Introduction: Access to CD4+ testing remains a common barrier to early initiation of antiretroviral therapy among persons living with HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries.
Francina Kaindjee-Tjituka +10 more
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HIV post‐exposure prophylaxis in community settings and by lay health workers or through task sharing: a systematic review of effectiveness, case studies, values and preferences, and costs [PDF]
Journal of the International AIDS SocietyIntroduction Post‐exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV prevention has been inadequately promoted, provided and used. Expanded access and task sharing could increase the HIV prevention impact of PEP, but scientific evidence to inform programmatic and policy
Caitlin E. Kennedy +8 more
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Developing lay health worker policy in South Africa: a qualitative study [PDF]
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2012 Background Over the past half decade South Africa has been developing, implementing and redeveloping its Lay Health Worker (LHW) policies. Research during this period has highlighted challenges with LHW programme implementation.
Daniels Karen +2 more
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