Lay community health workers
Roles and effectiveness of lay community health workers in the prevention of mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low and middle income countries: a systematic review
... a community area ...mental health outcomes involved primary prevention with four of the studies [26,30,32,33] using indicated prevention and only two studies [31] using selective primary prevention ...
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Secondary Trauma of lay Mental Health Workers in Low Resource Locations: Bukavu
... mental health personnel and resources are ...mental health services to survivors of rape has shifted to minimally trained ...mental health services in locations such as ...mental health ...
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How lay health workers tailor in effective health behaviour change interventions: a protocol for a systematic review
... target community or group; therefore, they are in an optimal pos- ition to identify individuals who would ...farm workers in the USA [3] or sex workers ...a community’ s cul- tural context for ...
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Health systems supports for community case management of childhood illness: lessons from an assessment of early implementation in Malawi
... child health [1]. Coverage of key child health interventions, such as artemisinin-combined therapies for malaria and antibio- tics for pneumonia, remains low ...integrated community case manage- ment ...
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Competency building for lay health workers is an intangible force driving basic public health services in Southwest China
... One important strategy to improve the competency of LHWs is professional training [41], which is a central method for the Chinese government to improve the competency of LHWs. The Chinese Minister of Health issued ...
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Are vaccination programmes delivered by lay health workers cost-effective? A systematic review
... on health needs ...randomized community trial, or series of trials, compar- ing the cost-effectiveness of LHWs for vaccination in a range of low-, middle- and high-income ...of health programmes ...
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Challenges to and opportunities for the adoption and routine use of early warning indicators to monitor pediatric HIV drug resistance in Kenya
... If they don’t come, we call volunteers or the community health worker to follow them. We also have the SMS system, we send them an SMS daily. (District hospital, County government managed) However, some ...
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People in Public Health a study of approaches to develop and support people in public health roles
... of lay workers include Hunter and Power’s (2002) paper which reports Big Issue sellers’ views on peer education to reduce drug-related harm among homeless people, and Hainsworth and Barlow’s (2003) study ...
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The experiences of lay health workers trained in task-shifting psychological interventions: a qualitative systematic review
... the community if the therapists selected are not desir- able, or unmatched to the community they are ...mental health problems it may be useful to recruit LHWs who are peers from the same ...
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The Occupational Role of the Lay Health Trainer in England: A Review of Practice
... in community health [34,38] including as: community food workers [39], peer educators [40,41], breastfeeding support workers [42] and walking-for-health leaders ...
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Cost effectiveness Analysis of Utilization of Community Health Workers in Promotion of Maternal Health Services in Butere District, Rural Western Kenya
... small county in Sao Paulo State, Brazil [8]. These services included diagnosis, early treatment and management of diarrhea, infectious respiratory diseases, growth monitoring and incentives to complete basic ...
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Community health workers can improve child growth of antenatally depressed, South African mothers: a cluster randomized controlled trial
... More research is needed in order to establish the opti- mal mix of interventions that are sufficiently targeted (screening for perinatal depression and providing referral or treatment), while also being sufficiently ...
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Integration of community health workers into health systems in developing countries: Opportunities and challenges
... by health care ...integrated community case management policy process in Kenya ...of health care pro- viders who may undermine demand for regular health practi- tioners ...
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... offer health services to fulfill twin agendas: a social agenda to protect poor households against risk, and the commercial agenda to enhance stability and profitability of poor household, thus protecting the ...
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Sharing Histories—a transformative learning/teaching method to empower community health workers to support health behavior change of mothers
... of community change ” based on community mem- bers as the key builders of their own future [77, ...improved health edu- cation and information sharing among women and their community members ” ...
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Community perceptions and attitudes on malaria case management and the role of community health workers
... Community health workers are in level one of the Kenyan healthcare service provision and a central pillar of primary health care delivery at the community ...Kenya’s Community ...
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<p>Improving uptake and completion of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD with lay health workers: feasibility of a clinical trial</p>
... A self-administered questionnaire of patient-participants’ views was administered by PR teams at final PR assess- ment (Section D “Questionnaire for patients who have been supported by a lay health worker” ...
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Factors associated with coverage of praziquantel for schistosomiasis control in the community-direct intervention (CDI) approach in Mali (West Africa)
... and health workers may need to pay more attention to ethnic diversity in order to build specific treatment schedules according to ethnic presence in the ...
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Factors contributing to motivation of volunteer community health workers in Ethiopia: the case of four woredas (districts) in Oromia and Tigray regions
... the community as 1to5NLs rather than engaging in other businesses and accomplishing some- thing worthwhile to the community were the second set of motivating factors of the ...the community may em- ...
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Human resource for health reform in peri-urban areas: a cross-sectional study of the impact of policy interventions on healthcare workers in Epworth, Zimbabwe
... amongst community doctors by the Ministry of Health helped increase self-confidence and self-esteem, over- come the challenge of professional isolation through the provision of a sense of belonging to a ...
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