The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: a critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent and accountability

M Schaaf, C Warthin, L Freedman, SM Topp - BMJ Global Health, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
This paper is a critical interpretive synthesis of community health workers (CHWs) and
accountability in low-income and middle-income countries. The guiding questions were …

Labour conditions in dual-cadre community health worker programmes: a systematic review

M Ballard, A Olaniran, MM Iberico, A Rogers… - The Lancet Global …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Health care delivered by community health workers reduces morbidity and
mortality while providing a considerable return on investment. Despite growing consensus …

[HTML][HTML] Communities, universal health coverage and primary health care

E Sacks, M Schleiff, M Were… - Bulletin of the World …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Universal health coverage (UHC) depends on a strong primary health-care system. To be
successful, primary health care must be expanded at community and household levels as …

Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures

A Wutich, J Budds, W Jepson, LM Harris… - Wiley …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water sharing offers insight into the everyday and, at times, invisible ties that bind people
and households with water and to one another. Water sharing can take many forms …

Factors enabling community health workers and volunteers to overcome socio-cultural barriers to behaviour change: meta-synthesis using the concept of social capital

N Mohajer, D Singh - Human resources for health, 2018 - Springer
Background Community-based health workers and volunteers are not just low-level health
workforce; their effectiveness is also due to their unique relationship with the community and …

Community cervical cancer screening: Barriers to successful home-based HPV self-sampling in Dabat district, North Gondar, Ethiopia. A qualitative study

BS Megersa, H Bussmann, T Bärnighausen… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Objective To explore the barriers to successful home-based human papillomavirus (HPV)
self-sampling in North Gondar, Ethiopia. Methods The study participants were women who …

Workload and emerging challenges of community health workers in low-and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review

T Astale, T Abebe, G Mitike - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in improving access
to health services to a broader population; particularly to communities living in remote areas …

Water sharing, reciprocity, and need: A comparative study of interhousehold water transfers in sub‐Saharan Africa

A Brewis, A Rosinger, A Wutich, E Adams… - Economic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Water sharing between households could crucially mitigate short‐term household water
shortages, yet it is a vastly understudied phenomenon. Here we use comparative survey …

Does volunteer community health work empower women? Evidence from Ethiopia's Women's Development Army

S Closser, H Napier, K Maes, R Abesha… - Health Policy and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Of the millions of Community Health Workers (CHWs) serving their communities across the
world, there are approximately twice as many female CHWs as there are male. Hiring …

Linking water (in) security and wellbeing in low-and middle-income countries

J Kangmennaang, SJ Elliott - Water security, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the centrality of water for human wellbeing and prosperity, researchers and
practitioners have few tools to conceptualize, quantitatively measure, and assess any …