Community health care workers in South Africa are at increased risk for tuberculosis. South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde. 2010;100(4):224, 6.Kranzer K, Bekker LG, van Schaik N, Thebus L, Dawson M, Caldwell J, et al. Community health ...
Breast cancer is a growing concern in low- and middle-income countries (LMCs). We explore community health worker (CHW) programs and describe their potential use in LMCs. We use South Africa as an example of how CHWs could improve access to breast health care because of its middle-income ...
Home visiting by community health workers (CHW) improves child outcomes in efficacy trials, there is however limited evidence of impact evaluating CHW programmes when operating outside of a research project. A CHW programme, previously demonstrated efficacious in a peri-urban township, was evaluated ...
There is re-emerging interest in community health workers (CHWs) as part of wider policies regarding task-shifting within human resources for health. This paper examines the history of CHW programmes established in South Africa in the later apartheid years (1970s–1994) – a time of innovative ...
The objectives of this review were to evaluate the effect of home visits by trained community health workers (CHWs) to successfully identify newborns and young infants (up to 59 days of age) with serious illness and improve care seeking from a health fac
With its emphasis on task shifting and multi-trained and skilled outreach teams the primary healthcare (PHC) re-engineering strategy in South Africa depends on the training, knowledge and attitudes of community health workers (CHWs) to provide a variety of TB/HIV services. The aim of this ...
The healthcare needs of South African communities are complex. Faced with a quadruple burden of disease and a growing yet ageing population requires multiple approaches from a variety of healthcare workers across all levels of the healthcare system [19]. The need to train health professionals who...
Moshabela M, Sips I, Barten F. Needs assessment for home-based care and the strengthening of social support networks: the role of community care workers in rural South Africa. Glob Health Action. 2015;8:29265.Moshabela M, Sips I, Barten F. Needs assessment for home-based care and the ...
In many countries, such programmes are not yet affordable unless significant foreign aid is received. 展开 关键词: affordability community health workers sub-Saharan Africa DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000391 被引量: 6 年份: 2017 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
Community health workers (CHWs) played an essential part in providing health services to the communities they served prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they had some positive impact on community/household health service promotion and delivery. Nonetheless, restricted movement and social ...