Community Health Worker Training: Planning, Tools, and Action PointsC. ReinertApha
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...
All CHWs received 80 hours of classroom training followed by biweekly training sessions. A health educator and nurse provided clinical support, and a manager provided supervision and operations oversight. The CHW made an initial visit to assess the participant’s knowledge of asthma, current status...
USAID's Nepal Family Health Project and UNICEF took the lead in providing commodities, training, and technical assistance to strengthen the skills of public sector health care providers in treating childhood diarrheas with both ORS/ ORT and zinc. At the same time, USAID/ Nepal funded the global...
as well as serving as a bridge between the community and health services. In turn, this potentially increases access for lower acuity cases, preventing youth from needing a higher level of care, while also allowing higher-need cases to be triaged to providers with more advanced training, ultimat...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a special history in regard to the training of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and is currently preparing its frontline health workforce to serve the 85% of the total PNG population of 7.3million people who live in rural and remote settings. This article identifies...
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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...
The training addressed both specific tasks (Table 1) that the teams would undertake as well as the skills and competencies to maintain a functioning team. The teamwork skills and competencies included i) good communication; ii) respectful dialogue and action; iii) each helping the other, ...
Community health worker (CHW) programmes have low costs per person served and are central to achieving universal healthcare. However, their total cost is high and the target of one million CHWs for sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 was not met. We consider the affordability of rural CHW programmes ...