Building Blocks to Peer Program Success: A Toolkit for Developing HIV Peer Programs
Purpose of this toolkit: to support organizations and communities who work with peers to effectively engage and retain PLWHA in care and treatment. Primary audiences: directors/managers, supervisors of social services, clinic managers and medical directors, nurses and case managers, state and county [...]
Supportive Supervision and Constructive Relationships with Healthcare Workers Support CHW Performance: Use of a Qualitative Framework to Evaluate CHW Programming in Uganda
A qualitative study addressing community health worker performance in Uganda. Focus groups were conducted with both low and high performing teams to assess the impact of supervision, peer support, relationships with other healthcare providers and retention and incentive structures on CHW performance [...]
Support for Community Health Workers to Increase Health Access and to Reduce Health Inequities
This policy statement by the American Public Health Association is an update to an earlier statement (2001). Articulates challenges to CHW workforce development, incorporates lessons learned in the years since the original statement, and confirms many of the 2001 statement recommendations
Engaging Outreach Workers in the Development of a Farmworker Health Research Agenda
An article from Environmental Research documenting the results of a survey administered to farmworker health outreach workers. While health outreach workers have not been involved in setting the research agenda for farmworker health, the authors seek to involve them in this process and to create a b [...]
Community Health Workers: Addressing Client Objectives Among Frequent Emergency Department Users
In this study, community health workers collaborated with frequent emergency department users to identify individualized health objectives and offered services to assist patients in accomplishing these goals. The authors identify barriers to objective achievement as well as implications for policy.
Community Health Workers: A Front Line for Primary Care?
An issue brief from the National Health Policy Forum. Examines CHW roles and duties, how CHW are trained, ways to incorporate CHW into mainstream health care, and the challenges to developing the CHW profession further.
Community Health Workers Promote Civic Engagement and Organizational Capacity to Impact Policy
An article from the Journal of Community Health assessing the relationship between community health worker advocacy and positive community change. The paper uses data from the 2014 National Community Health Worker Advocacy Survey to identify the roles of CHWs in advocacy and measure the impact of su [...]
Community Health Workers in the United States: Challenges in Identifying, Surveying, and Supporting the Workforce
An article exploring challenges around research with these community health workers. The authors point out the challenges of identifying, surveying, and supporting community health workers in the context of research, and offer strategies to engage the CHW workforce at the local, state, and national [...]
Community Health Workers โ A Local Solution to a Global Problem
An article from the New England Journal of Medicine. Explores the role of CHW and their contribution to improved health outcomes, reduced health care costs, and job creation.
Delivery of Public Health Services by Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Primary Health Care Settings in China: A Systematic Review (1996-2016)
A literature review from Global Health and Research Policy examining the roles of CHWs in China. CHWs there engage in both primary care and public health functions, including services related non-communicable disease as well as general services. Illuminates the barriers and facilitating factors in s [...]
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