Palafox, Benjamin Renedo, Alicia Lasco, Gideon Palileo-Villanueva, Lia Balabanova, Dina McKee, Martin
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Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Community health workers in low- and middle-income country primary health care systems are well suited to perform essential functions on the frontlines of Covid-19 pandemic responses. However, clear and coordinated guidance, updated infection control training, and reliable access to personal protective equipment must be ensured in order to deploy t...
Boldt, Ashley Nguyen, Milu King, Samantha Breitenstein, Susan M
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NASN school nurse (Print)
For over a century, community health workers (CHWs) have acted as agents of social justice, health care promotion, and change for the underresourced communities they serve and come from. Over 50,000 CHWs are employed in the United States, and this number is growing with the need for CHWs to help fight both the COVID-19 pandemic and social injustice...
Tan, Jingru Xu, Hanzhang Fan, Qiping Neely, Olivia Doma, Rinchen Gundi, Rishika Shrestha, Binjwala Shrestha, Abha Shrestha, Shrinkhala Karmacharya, Biraj
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Global Heart
Background: Hypertension and related complications are major contributors to morbidity and mortality in Nepal. Community health workers have been proposed as promising health cadres to meet the growing healthcare demand for non-communicable disease management in other developing countries. Objective: We aimed to explore existing workflows, needs an...
Scheffler, Elsje Mash, Robert
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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Background In less resourced settings, formal rehabilitation services for stroke survivors were often absent. Stroke survivors were referred to community health workers (CHWs) who were untrained in rehabilitation. Aim To describe the experience and perceived needs of stroke survivors, their caregivers and CHWs in a context with limited access to an...
Hitachi, Mami Wanjihia, Violet Nyandieka, Lilian Francesca, Chepkirui Wekesa, Norah Changoma, Juma Muniu, Erastus Ndemwa, Phillip Honda, Sumihisa Hirayama, Kenji
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Community-based nutritional intervention to improve the practice of dietary diversity and child nutrition by community health workers (CHWs)involving Nyumba Kumi as small neighborhood units (SNUs) in communities has not yet been explored. This study was conducted in two villages in rural Kenya between 2018 and 2019. In total, 662 participants (cont...
Hitachi, Mami Wanjihia, Violet Nyandieka, Lilian Francesca, Chepkirui Wekesa, Norah Changoma, Juma Muniu, Erastus Ndemwa, Phillip Honda, Sumihisa Hirayama, Kenji
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Community-based nutritional intervention to improve the practice of dietary diversity and child nutrition by community health workers (CHWs) involving Nyumba Kumi as small neighborhood units (SNUs) in communities has not yet been explored. This study was conducted in two villages in rural Kenya between 2018 and 2019. In total, 662 participants (con...
Portillo, Erin M Vasquez, Denise Brown, Louis D
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International quarterly of community health education
Hispanic immigrant health disparities are among the highest in the nation, especially related to obesity and access to health services. Healthy Fit (En Forma Saludable) is a health promotion program that leverages public health department infrastructure to address these disparities through the use of three key innovations explored in this article: ...
Zaidi, Shehla Kazi, Abdul Momin Riaz, Atif Ali, Ammarah Najmi, Rabia Jabeen, Rawshan Khudadad, Umerdad Sayani, Saleem
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background The recent proliferation of digital health technology in low- and middle-income countries has made it possible for community health workers (CHWs) to use mobile health (mHealth) to perform tasks such as data collection and training. Although most studies focus on the prospect of digital apps to motivate and connect CHW, only a few have c...
Abelman, Rebecca Alons, Catharina Stockman, Jeni Teri, Ivan Grimsrud, Anna Ombija, Maryanne Makwindi, Christopher Odionyi, Justine Tumbare, Esther Longwe, Barry
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Family Medicine and Community Health
Differentiated service delivery (DSD) models for HIV often exclude children and adolescents. Given that children and adolescents have lower rates of HIV diagnosis, treatment and viral load suppression, there is a need to use DSD to meet the needs of children and adolescents living with HIV. This commentary reviews the concept of DSD, examines the a...
Duby, Jessica Pell, Lisa G. Ariff, Shabina Khan, Amira Bhutta, Afsah Farrar, Daniel S. Bassani, Diego G. Hussain, Masawar Bhutta, Zulfiqar A. Soofi, Sajid
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Global Health Action
Background In 2018, Pakistan had the world’s highest neonatal mortality rate. Within Pakistan, most neonatal deaths occur in rural areas where access to health facilities is limited, and robust vital registration systems are lacking. To improve newborn survival, there is a need to better understand the causes of neonatal death in high burden settin...
