Learning from Community Health Worker Programs, Big and Small

Community Health Worker Programs to Improve Healthcare Access and Equity: Are They Only Relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Background Community Health Workers (CHWs) are proven to be highly effective in low- and middle-income countries with many examples of successful large-scale programs. There is growing interest in deploying CHW programs in high-income countries to address inequity in healthcare access and outcomes amongst population groups facing disadvantage. This study is the first that examines the scope and...

Community Health Worker Programmes

Learning from big health care data.

n engl j med 370;23 nejm.org june 5, 2014 2161 these data, within the system that generates them, to inform treatment choices in ways that improve patient care and health outcomes.1 Imagine entering your office in the morning and finding an e-mail message reading, “Thanks to your new vaccination screening program, as of yesterday your practice had given 120 more vaccinations than similar practi...

Learning from the Brazilian Community Health Worker Model in North Wales

Health policymakers in many countries are looking at ways of increasing health care coverage by scaling up the deployment of community health workers. In this commentary, we describe the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil's scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting with a pilot project in North Wales.

Harmonizing community-based health worker programs for HIV: a narrative review and analytic framework

BACKGROUND Many countries have created community-based health worker (CHW) programs for HIV. In most of these countries, several national and non-governmental initiatives have been implemented raising questions of how well these different approaches address the health problems and use health resources in a compatible way. While these questions have led to a general policy initiative to promote ...