A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline worker dedicated to providing quality health care to their local community. Their close relationship with those they serve fosters a trust that gives their health recommendations, diagnoses, and referrals added authority.1As a link to available health ...
This randomized parallel group study reports that the provision of in-home asthma self-management support by community health workers to low-income adults
How to Become a Community Health Worker? Most community health workers have at least a high school diploma and sometimes a one-year certificate or two-year associate's degree in wellness or some related subject area. Once CHWs are hired, there is often some on-the-job training. But perhaps...
Community health worker (CHW) pay, workload, and effectiveness are key issues globally and in Ethiopia, an impoverished country whose leaders nevertheless maintain ambitious plans for improving primary health care. This poster presents survey data collected in 2015, quantifying the workloads of Ethiopia...
The effects of community health worker (CHW) home visiting during the antenatal and postnatal periods in fragile- and conflicted-affected countries such as Afghanistan are not known. We conducted a non-randomised population-based intervention study from March 2015 to February 2016. Two intervention an...
This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of a community health worker–delivered personal sound amplification device intervention vs a wait-list
Conclusions:This review provides a categorisation of CHWs that may be useful for health policy formulation, programme planning, and research. 展开 关键词: Lay health worker health workforce role scope of practice DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1272223 被引量: 5 ...
Ageneral introductionof this article is as follows: Reliable and timely health information is an essential foundation of public health action and health systems strengthening, both nationally and internationally (Aqil et al. in Health Policy Plan 24(3): 217–228,2009; Bradshaw et al. in initial...
Improving and introducing a competency-based curriculum is an essential step towards building a healthier nation.community health worker, curriculum development, Papua New Guinea, primary health care. 展开 关键词: Papua New Guinea community health worker curriculum development primary health care ...
Home-based community health worker intervention to reduce pesticide exposures to farmworkers' children: A randomized-controlled trial We conducted a randomized-controlled trial of a home-based intervention to reduce pesticide exposures to farmworkers' children in Monterey County, Californ... AL Salvatore...