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 …

Identifying the core elements of effective community health worker programs: a research agenda

SR Arvey, ME Fernandez - American journal of public …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being incorporated into health
programs because they are assumed to effectively deliver health messages in a culturally …

Trauma-informed social policy: A conceptual framework for policy analysis and advocacy

EA Bowen, NS Murshid - American journal of public …, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Trauma-informed care is a service provision model used across a range of practice settings.
Drawing on an extensive body of research on trauma (broadly defined as experiences that …

Becoming and remaining community health workers: perspectives from Ethiopia and Mozambique

K Maes, I Kalofonos - Social Science & Medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Many global health practitioners are currently reaffirming the importance of recruiting and
retaining effective community health workers (CHWs) in order to achieve major public health …

Community health workers—a local solution to a global problem

P Singh, DA Chokshi - New England Journal of Medicine, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
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Listening to community health workers: how ethnographic research can inform positive relationships among community health workers, health institutions, and …

K Maes, S Closser, I Kalofonos - American Journal of …, 2014 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Many actors in global health are concerned with improving community health worker (CHW)
policy and practice to achieve universal health care. Ethnographic research can play an …

[图书][B] The lives of community health workers: Local labor and global health in urban Ethiopia

K Maes - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of
today's most high-profile global health programs, including campaigns focused on specific …

Community health workers in the United States: challenges in identifying, surveying, and supporting the workforce

S Sabo, CG Allen, K Sutkowi… - American journal of …, 2017 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Community health workers (CHWs) are members of a growing profession in the United
States. Studying this dynamic labor force is challenging, in part because its members have …

Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in”

M Schaaf, J Fox, SM Topp, C Warthin… - International Journal for …, 2018 - Springer
Community health workers (CHWs) are frequently put forward as a remedy for lack of health
system capacity, including challenges associated with health service coverage and with low …

Community health workers and social change: An introduction

K Maes - Annals of Anthropological Practice, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Major global health institutions, public and private, currently see community health workers
(CHWs) as crucial resources. But the daily experiences and complex motives of CHWs, as …