OBJECTIVES To reveal the equity of health workforce distribution in urban community health service (CHS), and to provide evidence for further development of community health service in China. METHODS A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in China from September to December 2011. In the study, 190 CHS centers were selected from 10 provinces of China via stratified multistage c...

To test the efficacy of a sustainable community-level HIV intervention among sex workers, the Sonagachi Project was replicated, including community organizing and advocacy, peer education, condom social marketing, and establishment of a health clinic. Sex workers were randomly selected in 2 small urban communities in northeastern India (n = 100 each) and assessed every 5–6 months over 15 months...

A large proportion of four million neonatal deaths occur each year during the first 24 hours of life. Research is particularly needed to determine the efficacy of interventions during the first 24 hours. Large cadres of community-based workers are required in newborn-care research both to deliver these interventions in a standardized manner in the home and to measure the outcomes of the study. ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the profile of community health workers--health promoters, traditional birth attendants and traditional healers--in rural Quechua communities from Ayacucho, Peru. METHODS Basic quantitative and qualitative information was gathered as part of a community health project implemented between 1997 and 2002 in 40 Andean communities with information from questionnaires, persona...

BACKGROUND Given the challenges to ensuring facility-based care in conflict settings, the Women's Refugee Commission and partners have been pursuing a community-based approach to providing medical care to survivors of sexual assault in Karen State, eastern Burma. This new model translates the 2004 World Health Organization's Clinical Management of Rape Survivors facility-based protocol to the c...

PURPOSE To characterize the training of Community Health Workers in the field of child hearing health. RESEARCH STRATEGY A systematic literature review on Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) and Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações of USP databases was performed. SELECTION CRITERIA The search strategy was oriented by the specific question: "How have the Community Health Workers been tra...

This research is making efforts to link the components of social capital and social development in regions 7-district 18 of Tehran Municipality's employees are evaluated and measured in this study, we refer to the concept of social capital and the economic and public interest aspects of social capital and how to create, maintain and destroy social capital mentioned, after it has been attempted ...