The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre

K Hanson, N Brikci, D Erlangga… - The Lancet Global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning
primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic …

Strengthening primary health care through community health workers in South Asia

P Shrestha, K Afsana, MC Weerasinghe… - The Lancet Regional …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The growing health challenges in South Asia require further adaptations of community
health worker (CHW) programs as a key element of primary health care (PHC). This paper …

Community health workers and Covid-19: Cross-country evidence on their roles, experiences, challenges and adaptive strategies

S Salve, J Raven, P Das, S Srinivasan… - PLOS Global Public …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Community health workers (CHWs) are a key part of the health workforce, with particular
importance for reaching the most marginalised. CHWs' contributions during pandemics have …

[HTML][HTML] Health by the people, again? The lost lessons of Alma-Ata in a community health worker programme in Zambia

J Wintrup - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
National community health worker (CHW) programmes were central to the vision of primary
health care that emerged from the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978. CHWs were identified as …

Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care

T Kasper, G Yamey, S Dwyer, KK McDade, J Lidén… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Global campaigns to control HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccine-preventable illnesses
showed that large-scale impact can be achieved by using additional international financing …

Motivation and performance of community health workers: nothing new under the sun, and Yet…

E Sarriot, T Davis, M Morrow, T Kabore… - Global Health: Science …, 2021 - ghspjournal.org
Motivation and Performance of Community Health Workers: Nothing New Under the Sun, and
Yet… | Global Health: Science and Practice Skip to main content Main menu Content Current …

O uso de tecnologias digitais nas práticas de trabalhadores comunitários de saúde: uma revisão internacional de escopo

RC Santos, LIM Silva, LDPJ Santos… - Trabalho, Educação e …, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
Este artigo objetiva mapear a literatura sobre as aplicações e percepções acerca do uso de
tecnologias digitais nas práticas de trabalhadores comunitários de saúde. Trata-se de uma …

Expanded roles of community health workers to sustain malaria services in the Asia-Pacific: A landscaping survey

M Jongdeepaisal, M Sirimatayanant… - PLOS Global Public …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Malaria Community Health Workers (CHWs) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are an
important component of malaria elimination efforts. As malaria declines with intensified …

The experiences and challenges of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change programming in Africa: a scoping review

M Ndu, E Andoniou, S McNally… - Global Health …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Community health volunteers are considered a vital part of the community health structure in
Africa. Despite this vital role in African health systems, very little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Agentes Comunitárias de Saúde: o que dizem os estudos internacionais?

LMBD Méllo, RC Santos… - Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
Trata-se de uma revisão narrativa cujo objetivo é compreender o estado da arte da literatura
sobre programas de Agentes Comunitárias de Saúde (ACS) no mundo, identificando suas …