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: 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.
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 [...]
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.
Community Health Workers
A concept note produced by the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard. Outlines the history of global CHW programs as well as case studies of successful recruitment efforts.
Community Health Workers Improve Disease Control and Medication Adherence among Patients with Diabetes and/or Hypertension in Chiapas, Mexico: An Observational Stepped-Wedge Study
The authors of this study sought to determine whether a community health worker intervention might improve disease control and adherence among individuals living with diabetes or hypertension. The CHW intervention was associated with a significant increase in disease management and adherence.
Affordable Care Act Opportunities for Community Health Workers โ How Medicaid Preventive Services, Medicaid Health Homes, and State Innovation Models are Including Community Health Workers
A report by Harvard Law School, Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation. Overview of the three ways the Affordable Care Act has enhanced the role and opportunities for CHW in the U.S. healthcare system. As a result of these opportunities, states are choosing to implement CHW to: (1) provide in [...]
Report on the “Think-In” on Community Health Worker Voice, Power, and Citizens’ Right to Health
Report from a convening organized by the Accountability Research Center of the School of International Service at American University. Participants shared experiences and knowledge, with the goals of identifying how CHWs experience accountability, and how to greater improve the accountability of CHW [...]
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 [...]
Community Health Worker Credentialing โ State Approaches
A report by Harvard Law School, Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation. Exploration of approaches states have taken to support and regulate CHW.
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