Impact et efficience de l’intégration du diagnostic et du traitement de la pneumonie dans la prise en charge communautai...
Responding to the health needs of migrant farm workers in South Africa: Opportunities and challenges for sustainable com...
Published in Health & social care in the community
Reflecting global trends, migrant farm workers in South Africa experience challenges in accessing healthcare. On the commercial farms in Musina, a sub-district bordering Zimbabwe, Medécins sans Frontières and the International Organization for Migration both implemented migration-aware community-based programmes that included the training of commun...
Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program for low and middle-income countries: protocol for a cluster randomised trial to...
...Published in BMJ open
Low and middle-income countries like South Africa are experiencing major increases in burden of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular conditions. However, evidence-based interventions to address behavioural factors related to these diseases are lacking. Our study aims to adapt the CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program (...
Surviving a stroke in South Africa: outcomes of home-based care in a low-resource rural setting.
Published in Topics in stroke rehabilitation
Background: Little is known of stroke outcomes in low- and middle-income countries with limited formal stroke rehabilitation services and of homebased-stroke services delivered within the primary health care (PHC) context by community health workers (CHWs). Objectives: To describe and analyze the outcomes of patients with stroke from a rural PHC se...
School-Based Dental Education for Improving Oral Self-Care in Mexican Elementary School-Aged Children.
Published in Health promotion practice
Aim. To test the efficiency and acceptance of school-based dental education for improving oral self-care in Mexican elementary school-aged children. Method. A total of 408 students from 4 schools were examined at the baseline, 3 months (follow-up rate was 94%) and 6 months observations (follow-up rate 91%). Group 1 served as a control, Group 2 rece...
Authors' Commentary: Domestic Violence Against Women, Public Policies and Community Health Workers in Brazilian Primary ...
Published in International quarterly of community health education
Lessons learned from community-based tuberculosis case-finding in western Kenya.
...Published in Public health action
Las unidades móviles fueron más eficaces y eficientes cuando los CHV operaban en un evento único, con remuneración diaria.
Implementing an integrated community based health systems strengthening approach to improve HIV survival in Northern Tog...
...Published in AIDS care
To disseminate lessons learned from the implementation experience of a public-private sector partnership, we describe a comprehensive HIV/AIDS program including 5-year survival outcomes for individuals who initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment in Togo from 2010 to 2015. A retrospective case study analysis was conducted from a cohort of p...
Using Job Analysis Techniques to Understand Training Needs for Promotores de Salud.
Published in Health promotion practice
Despite the value of community health worker programs, such as Promotores de Salud, for addressing health disparities in the Latino community, little consensus has been reached to formally define the unique roles and duties associated with the job, thereby creating unique job training challenges. Understanding the job tasks and worker attributes ce...
Using recruitment and selection to build a primary care workforce for the future.
Recruitment and selection are critical components of human resource management. They influence both the quantity and quality of the healthcare workforce. In this article, we use two different examples of primary care workers, General Practitioners in the UK and Community Health Workers in low- and middle- income countries, to illustrate how recruit...
