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How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review
... in community health services has been building to address these gaps and as a pathway to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), with substantial commitment to Community Health Worker ...
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How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review
... in community health ser- vices has been building to address these gaps and as a pathway to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), with sub- stantial commitment to Community Health ...
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Who is a community health worker? – a systematic review of definitions
... Global Health, LILACS, MEDLINE, Popline, and Web of Science); two of these databases also contained grey literature (CHW Central and ...‘community health worker* ’ and alternate terms for ‘ ...
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An integrated community health worker intervention in rural Nepal: a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study protocol
... challenge. Community health workers are an important cadre in low-income countries where human resources for health and health care infrastructure are ...to health care access. Recent ...
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‘It’s the sense of responsibility that keeps you going’: stories and experiences of participation from rural community health workers in Guatemala
... successful community health worker programs is the ability to work closely with the commu- nities they are serving ...local, community-chosen staff ...the community. In addition, having ...
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Print media coverage of primary healthcare and related research evidence in South Africa
... equitable health outcomes ...active community participation and empowerment, equity, intersectoral collaboration, and use of appropriate technology ...of community health worker (CHW) ...
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Community based intervention for blood pressure reduction in Nepal (COBIN trial): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
... However, community-based protocols to reduce blood pressure via lifestyle interventions remain poorly de- ...on health promotion for blood pres- sure reduction have yielded inconclusive results [6, ...about ...
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A process evaluation plan for assessing a complex community based maternal health intervention in Ogun State, Nigeria
... components: community engagement, community health worker strengthening, antenatal and postnatal monitoring, and, when indicated, community initiation of life-saving therapies to treat ...
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Assessing the Integrated Community-Based Health Systems Strengthening initiative in northern Togo: a pragmatic effectiveness-implementation study protocol
... and community-based health interventions are re- ferred to as the Integrated Community-Based Health Systems Strengthening (ICBHSS) model ...World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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A framework for evaluating the costs of malaria elimination interventions: an application to reactive case detection in Southern Province of Zambia, 2014
... CHW: community health worker; CPI: consumer price inflation; dCHW: data com‑ munity health worker; DHIS: district health information system; DHO: district health office; ...
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Community health workers’ knowledge and practice in relation to pre-eclampsia in Ogun State, Nigeria: an essential bridge to maternal survival
... Results: Community-based health care providers proved to be aware that pre-eclampsia was due to the development of hypertension and proteinuria in pregnant ...authorize community health ...
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Decolonising Public Health: Applying epidemiology and Indigenous worldview to how health and well being is considered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
... for community functioning, where the things that people value, their ways of knowing, being and doing, translate to their freedom and choice of participation (31, ...their health and wellbeing and assist ...
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The effects of health worker motivation and job satisfaction on turnover intention in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
... of health worker motivation, job satisfaction and turnover intention, and thus provides only a snapshot of health workers’ perspectives at one point in ...up health workers who had been absent ...
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Factors influencing motivation and job satisfaction among supervisors of community health workers in marginalized communities in South Africa
... of community settings in order to include diverse perspec- tives from supervisors from diverse ...primary health care settings such as primary health care clinics might ...
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Measuring teamwork and taskwork of community-based “teams” delivering life-saving health interventions in rural Zambia: a qualitative study
... in health care settings in developing coun- ...formed community health teams comprised of community health agents, community health volunteers and TBAs in Mozambique’s ...
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Mtetezi Developing mental health advocacy with African and Caribbean men
... The review differentiates between two levels of mechanisms for advo- cacy. First, what sort of advocacy works for whom under what circum- stances? This review has generated hypotheses about how advocacy could work to ...
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Surgical referral coordination from a first level hospital: a prospective case study from rural Nepal
... Following the completion of this study, further growth of the Possible team led to a shift in funding and oper- ational priorities towards expanding on-site surgical cap- acity rather than deepening referral care ...
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Screening for ‘at risk’ under five children by community health workers: A study in a rural area of Tamil Nadu
... The age of parents is a crucial factor determining child health. An under five child being in the dependent age group, highly relies on the primary caregiver for all activities. In this study, the largest ...
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Initiating community engagement in an ecohealth research project in Southern Africa
... forming community coalitions and partnerships, forming advis- ory committees, creating open community fora, and standardising principles, but not in individual site activ- ities [13–15, ...a ...
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“If I had known, I would have applied”: poor communication, job dissatisfaction, and attrition of rural health workers in Sierra Leone
... a health posting, and types of changes that would encourage them to stay at their current ...the health workers described their personal experiences, a listing exercise where health workers were ...
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