Hodgins S, Lewin S, Glenton C, LeBan K, Crigler l, Musoke D, Kok M, Perry H: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction and tensions confronting programs. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00752-8.
Afzal M, Pariyo G, Perry H: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00753-7.
Lewin S, Lehmann U, Perry H: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Program governance. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00749-3.
Masis L, Gichaga A, Lu C, Perry H: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Program financing. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00751-9.
Glenton C, Javadi D, Perry H: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00748-4.
Schleiff M, Aitken I, Perry H: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Training. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00757-3.
Carpenter C, Musoke D, Crigler L, Perry H: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 7. Supervision. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00754-6.
Colvin C, Hodgins S, Perry H. Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 8. Incentives and remuneration. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00750-w.
LeBan K, Kok M, Perry H. Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs' relationships with the health system and the community. Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00756-4.
Kok M, Crigler L, Kok M, Ballard M, Musoke D, Hodgins S, Perry H. Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 10. Program performance and its assessment. BMC Health Res Policy Syst. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00758-2.
Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policy Makers. http://www.mchip.net/sites/default/files/mchipfiles/CHW_ReferenceGuide_sm.pdf. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/275474/9789241550369-eng.pdf?ua=1. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Health for the People: National Community Health Programs from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. [https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00WKKN.pdf. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Declaration of Astana. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/primary-health/declaration/gcphc-declaration.pdf. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 October 2019: Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage. https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/74/2.
Assefa Y, Tesfaye D, Damme WV, Hill PS. Effectiveness and sustainability of a diagonal investment approach to strengthen the primary health-care system in Ethiopia. Lancet. 2018;392:1473–81.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Assefa Y, Gelaw YA, Hill PS, Taye BW, Van Damme W. Community health extension program of Ethiopia, 2003–2018: successes and challenges toward universal coverage for primary healthcare services. Global Health. 2019;15:24.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Address by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General. http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA72/A72_3-en.pdf. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Community health workers delivering primary health care: opportunities and challenges. http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA72/A72_R3-en.pdf. Accessed 11 April 2021
Perry HB, editor. Engaging communities for improving mothers’ and children’s health: reviewing the evidence of effectiveness in resource-constrained settings. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Global Health Society; 2017.
Google Scholar
Black RE, Taylor CE, Arole S, Bang A, Bhutta ZA, Chowdhury AMR, Kirkwood BR, Kureshy N, Lanata CF, Phillips JF, et al. Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 8. Summary and recommendations of the Expert Panel. J Glob Health. 2017;7:010908.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Lewin S, Munabi-Babigumira S, Glenton C, Daniels K, Bosch-Capblanch X, van Wyk BE, Odgaard-Jensen J, Johansen M, Aja GN, Zwarenstein M, Scheel IB. Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010;3:4015.
Google Scholar
Glenton C, Scheel IB, Lewin S, Swingler GH. Can lay health workers increase the uptake of childhood immunisation? Systematic review and typology. Trop Med Int Health. 2011;16:1044–53.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Black RE, Levin C, Walker N, Chou D, Liu L, Temmerman M, Group DRA. Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: key messages from Disease Control Priorities. Lancet. 2016; 388:2811–24.
Community Health Workers. https://www.exemplars.health/topics/community-health-workers. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Ballard M, Bancroft E, Nesbit J, Johnson A, Holeman I, Foth J, Rogers D, Yang J, Nardella J, Olsen H, et al. Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response. BMJ Glob Health. 2020;5:74.
Article
Google Scholar
Community health workers are crucial to pandemic response. How to support them. https://theconversation.com/community-health-workers-are-crucial-to-pandemic-response-how-to-support-them-134908. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Haines A, de Barros EF, Berlin A, Heymann DL, Harris MJ. National UK programme of community health workers for COVID-19 response. Lancet. 2020;395:1173–5.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Waters R. Community Workers Lend Human Connection To COVID-19 Response. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020;39:1112–7.
Article
Google Scholar
Goldfield NI, Crittenden R, Fox D, McDonough J, Nichols L, Lee Rosenthal E. COVID-19 crisis creates opportunities for community-centered population health: community health workers at the center. J Ambul Care Manage. 2020;43:184–90.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Rodin J, de Ferranti D. Universal health coverage: the third global health transition? Lancet. 2012;380:861–2.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Jamison DT, Summers LH, Alleyne G, Arrow KJ, Berkley S, Binagwaho A, Bustreo F, Evans D, Feachem RG, Frenk J, et al. Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation. Lancet. 2013;382:1898–955.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
CHW Advocates. https://www.chwadvocates.org/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders. https://www.120under40.org/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
The Financing Alliance for Health. http://www.financingalliance.org/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Healey J, Wiah SO, Horace JM, Majekodunmi DB, Duokie DS. Liberia’s community health assistant program: scale, quality, and resilience. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021;9:S18–24.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Lu C, Palazuelos D, Luan Y, Sachs SE, Mitnick CD, Rhatigan J, Perry HB. Development assistance for community health workers in 114 low- and middle-income countries, 2007–2017. Bull World Health Organ. 2020;98:30–9.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Pantoja T, Opiyo N, Lewin S, Paulsen E, Ciapponi A, Wiysonge CS, Herrera CA, Rada G, Penaloza B, Dudley L, et al. Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2017;9:11086.
Google Scholar
Glenton C, Colvin C, Carlsen B, Swartz A, Lewin S, Noyes J, Rashidian A. Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lay health worker programmes to improve access to maternal and child health: qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013;8:25.
Google Scholar
Perry H, Morrow M, Borger S, Weiss J, DeCoster M, Davis T, Ernst P. Care Groups I: An Innovative Community-Based Strategy for Improving Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Resource-Constrained Settings. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2015;3:358–69.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Perry H, Morrow M, Davis T, Borger S, Weiss J, DeCoster M, Ricca J, Ernst P. Care Groups II: a summary of the maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes achieved in high-mortality, resource-constrained settings. Global Health Sci Pract. 2015;3:370–81.
Article
Google Scholar
Weiss J, Makonnen R, Sula D. Shifting management of a community volunteer system for improved child health outcomes: results from an operations research study in Burundi. BMC Health Serv Res. 2015;15(Suppl 1):S2.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Johnson AD, Thiero O, Whidden C, Poudiougou B, Diakite D, Traore F, Samake S, Kone D, Cisse I, Kayentao K. Proactive community case management and child survival in periurban Mali. BMJ Glob Health. 2018;3:e000634.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Gaye S, Kibler J, Ndiaye JL, Diouf MB, Linn A, Gueye AB, Fall FB, Ndiop M, Diallo I, Cisse M, et al. Proactive community case management in Senegal 2014–2016: a case study in maximizing the impact of community case management of malaria. Malar J. 2020;19:166.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Whidden C, Thwing J, Gutman J, Wohl E, Leyrat C, Kayentao K, Johnson AD, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D. Proactive case detection of common childhood illnesses by community health workers: a systematic review. BMJ Glob Health. 2019;4:e001799.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Sadruddin S, Pagnoni F, Baugh G. Lessons from the integrated community case management (iCCM) Rapid Access Expansion Program. J Glob Health. 2019;9:20101.
Article
Google Scholar
McPherson R, Hodgins S. Postnatal home visitation: lessons from country programs operating at scale. J Glob Health. 2018;8:10422.
Article
Google Scholar
Prost A, Colbourn T, Seward N, Azad K, Coomarasamy A, Copas A, Houweling TA, Fottrell E, Kuddus A, Lewycka S, et al. Women’s groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet. 2013;381:1736–46.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
WHO recommendation on community mobilization through facilitated participatory and action cycles with women's groups for maternal and newborn health. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/127939/9789241507271_eng.pdf?sequence=1&ua=1. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Perry H, Morrow M, Davis T, Borger S, Weiss J, DeCoster M, Ricca J, Ernst P. Care Groups II: a summary of the child survival outcomes achieved using volunteer community health workers in resource-constrained settings. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2015;3:370–81.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Stollak I, Valdez M, Rivas K, Perry H. Casas maternas in the rural highlands of guatemala: a mixed-methods case study of the introduction and utilization of birthing facilities by an indigenous population. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2016;4:114–31.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Community-Based Approaches to Health: How Engaging Local Community Members Can Transform the Health of Hard-to-Reach Populations. https://www.impact.upenn.edu/high-impact-giving-guide-2018/health/brac-manoshi-project/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Harris M, Haines A. Brazil’s family health programme. BMJ. 2010;341:c4945.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Costa EF, Guerra PH, Santos TI, Florindo AA. Systematic review of physical activity promotion by community health workers. Prev Med. 2015;81:114–21.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kim K, Choi JS, Choi E, Nieman CL, Joo JH, Lin FR, Gitlin LN, Han HR. Effects of community-based health worker interventions to improve chronic disease management and care among vulnerable populations: a systematic review. Am J Public Health. 2016;106:e3–28.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Raphael JL, Rueda A, Lion KC, Giordano TP. The role of lay health workers in pediatric chronic disease: a systematic review. Acad Pediatr. 2013;13:408–20.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Small N, Blickem C, Blakeman T, Panagioti M, Chew-Graham CA, Bower P. Telephone based self-management support by “lay health workers” and “peer support workers” to prevent and manage vascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Health Serv Res. 2013;13:533.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
van Ginneken N, Tharyan P, Lewin S, Rao GN, Meera SM, Pian J, Chandrashekar S, Patel V. Non-specialist health worker interventions for the care of mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013;58:9149.
Google Scholar
Palazuelos D, Jabateh LM, Choi M, Jimenez A, Hing M, Iberico MM, Nhlema B, Wroe E. Early lessons from launching an innovative community health household model across 3 country contexts. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021;9:S168–78.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Vasudevan L, Henschke N, Glenton C, Lewin S, Maayan N, Eyers J, Fonhus M, Tamrat T, Mehl G. Birth and death notification via mobile devices. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012909.
Article
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
AbouZahr C, de Savigny D, Mikkelsen L, Setel PW, Lozano R, Nichols E, Notzon F, Lopez AD. Civil registration and vital statistics: progress in the data revolution for counting and accountability. Lancet. 2015;12:945.
Google Scholar
Suthar AB, Khalifa A, Yin S, Wenz K, Ma Fat D, Mills SL, Nichols E, AbouZahr C, Mrkic S. Evaluation of approaches to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics systems: a systematic review and synthesis of policies in 25 countries. PLoS Med. 2019;16:e1002929.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Nichols EK, Ragunanthan NW, Ragunanthan B, Gebrehiwet H, Kamara K. A systematic review of vital events tracking by community health agents. Glob Health Action. 2019;12:1597452.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Damtew Z, Lemma S, Zulliger R, Moges A, Teklu A, Perry H. Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program. In: Perry H, editor. Health for the People: National Community Health Programs from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Washingon: USAID/Maternal and Child Survival Program; 2020. p. 75–86.
Google Scholar
Joardar T, Javadi D, Gergen J, Perry H. The BRAC Shasthya Shebika and Shasthya Kormi Community Health Workers in Bangladesh. In: Perry H, editor. Health for the People: National Community Health Programs from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Washington: USAID/Jhpiego/Maternal and Child Survival Program; 2020.
Google Scholar
CHW Central: A Global Resource for and about Community Health Workers. https://chwcentral.org/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Healthcare Information for All. https://www.hifa.org/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Hesperian Health Guides. https://hesperian.org/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021.
Community Health Academy. https://lastmilehealth.org/what-we-do/community-health-academy/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021.
Teklu A, Alemayehu Y. National Assessment of the Ethiopian Health Extension Program. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: MERQ Consultancy PLC; 2019.
Collins LM, Baker TB, Mermelstein RJ, Piper ME, Jorenby DE, Smith SS, Christiansen BA, Schlam TR, Cook JW, Fiore MC. The multiphase optimization strategy for engineering effective tobacco use interventions. Ann Behav Med. 2011;41:208–26.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
WHO guideline: recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2019. https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/digital-interventions-health-system-strengthening/en/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Leon N, Balakrishna Y, Hohlfeld A, Odendaal WA, Schmidt BM, Zweigenthal V, Anstey Watkins J, Daniels K. Routine Health Information System (RHIS) improvements for strengthened health system management. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020;8:12012.
Google Scholar
Wagner Z, Heft-Neal S, Bhutta ZA, Black RE, Burke M, Bendavid E. Armed conflict and child mortality in Africa: a geospatial analysis. Lancet. 2018;392:857–65.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Wagner Z, Heft-Neal S, Wise PH, Black RE, Burke M, Boerma T, Bhutta ZA, Bendavid E. Women and children living in areas of armed conflict in Africa: a geospatial analysis of mortality and orphanhood. Lancet Glob Health. 2019;7:e1622–31.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Horton A, Silwal R, Simkhada P. A survey study on the role of Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal, during and following the 2015 earthquakes. Int J Disast Risk Red. 2020;48:101583.
Article
Google Scholar
Miller NP, Ardestani FB, Dini HS, Shafique F, Zunong N. Community health workers in humanitarian settings: Scoping review. J Glob Health. 2020;10:20602.
Article
Google Scholar
Jones KE, Patel NG, Levy MA, Storeygard A, Balk D, Gittleman JL, Daszak P. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature. 2008;451:990–3.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Prevent, detect, respond: how community health workers can help in the fight against covid-19. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/27/prevent-detect-respond-how-community-health-workers-can-help-fight-covid-19/. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Losey L, Ogden E, Bisrat F, Solomon R, Newberry D, Coates E, Ward D. HIlmi L, Burrowes V, LeBan K, Perry HB: The CORE Group Polio Project: An Overview of Its History and Its Contributions to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;101:4–14.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Kisanga A, Abiuda B, Walyaula P, Losey L, Samson O. Evaluation of the functionality and effectiveness of the core group polio project’s community-based acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system in South Sudan. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;101:91–9.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Arale A, Lutukai M, Mohamed S, Bologna L, Stamidis KV. Preventing importation of poliovirus in the horn of Africa: the success of the cross-border health initiative in Kenya and Somalia. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;101:100–6.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Perry H, Solomon V, Bisrat F, Hilmi L, Stamidis K, Steinglass R, Weiss W, Losey L, Ogden E. Lessons learned from community engagement, community-based programming for polio eradication, and the CORE Group Polio Project: their relevance for ending preventable child and maternal deaths. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;101:107–12.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Ludwick T, Morgan A, Kane S, Kelaher M, McPake B. The distinctive roles of urban community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature. Health Policy Plan. 2020;4:245.
Google Scholar
Wahl B, Lehtimaki S, Germann S, Schwalbe N. Expanding the use of community health workers in urban settings: a potential strategy for progress towards universal health coverage. Health Policy Plan. 2020;35:91–101.
PubMed
Google Scholar
Marcil L, Afsana K, Perry HB. First Steps in Initiating an Effective Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program in Urban Slums: the BRAC Manoshi Project’s Experience with Community Engagement, Social Mapping, and Census Taking in Bangladesh. J Urban Health. 2016;93:6–18.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Perry HB, Rohde J. The Jamkhed comprehensive rural health project and the Alma-Ata vision of primary health care. Am J Public Health. 2019;22:e1–6.
Google Scholar
Chowdhury A, Perry H. NGO Contributions to Community Health and Primary Health Care: Case Studies on BRAC (Bangladesh) and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (India). In Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Global Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press USA; 2020.
Google Scholar
Walker PR, Downey S, Crigler L, LeBan K. CHW “Principles of Practice”: Guiding principles for non-governmental organizations and their partners for coordinated national scale-up of community health worker programs. Washington: CORE Group/World Vision International; 2013. p. 21.
Google Scholar
Ballard M, Schwarz R. Employing practitioner expertise in optimizing community healthcare systems. Healthcare (Amst). 2019;7:100334.
Article
Google Scholar
Morrow M, Sarriot E, Nelson A, Sayinzoga F. Applying the community helath worker coverage and capacity tool for time-use modeling for program planning in Rwanda and Zanzibar. Global Health Sci Pract. 2021;9:S65–78.
Article
Google Scholar
Pascal Saint-Firmin P, Diakite B, Ward K, Benard M, Stratton S, Ortiz C, Dutta A, Traore S. Community health worker program sustainability in Africa: evidence from costing, financing, and geospatial analyses in Mali. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021;9:S79–97.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Hodgins S. Learning from community health worker programs, big and small. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2020;8:147–9.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Kirk K, McClair TL, Dakouo SP, Abuya T, Sripad P. Introduction of digital reporting platform to integrate community-level data into health information systems is feasible and acceptable among various community health stakeholders: a mixed-methods pilot study in Mopti Mali. J Glob Health. 2021;11:07003.
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
George AS, LeFevre AE, Schleiff M, Mancuso A, Sacks E, Sarriot E. Hubris, humility and humanity: expanding evidence approaches for improving and sustaining community health programmes. BMJ Glob Health. 2018;3:e000811.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Schaaf M, Warthin C, Freedman L, Topp S. The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: a critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent and accountability. BMJ Global Health. 2020;5:e002296.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Uddin M, Shams Z, Haque N, Jahan S, Perry H. Description and learnings from a pilot study to strengthen close-to-community primary health care services: the community-clinic-centered health service model in Barishal District Bangladesh. Global Health. 2021;5:88.
Google Scholar
Cometto G, Ford N, Pfaffman-Zambruni J, Akl EA, Lehmann U, McPake B, Ballard M, Kok M, Najafizada M, Olaniran A, et al. Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline. Lancet Glob Health. 2018;6:e1397–404.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Everybody's Business: Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Health Outcomes. https://www.who.int/healthsystems/strategy/everybodys_business.pdf. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Sacks E, Swanson RC, Schensul JJ, Gleave A, Shelley KD, Were MK, Chowdhury AM, LeBan K, Perry HB. Community Involvement in health systems strengthening to improve global health outcomes: a review of guidelines and potential roles. Int Q Community Health Educ. 2017;37:139–49.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sacks E, Morrow M, Story WT, Shelley KD, Shanklin D, Rahimtoola M, Rosales A, Ibe O, Sarriot E. Beyond the building blocks: integrating community roles into health systems frameworks to achieve health for all. BMJ Glob Health. 2018;3:e001384.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Harris M, Bhatti Y, Buckley J, Sharma D. Fast and frugal innovations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nat Med. 2020;26:814–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Perry HB, Zulliger R, Rogers MM. Community health workers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries: an overview of their history, recent evolution, and current effectiveness. Annu Rev Public Health. 2014;35:399–421.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Singh P, Chokshi DA. Community health workers–a local solution to a global problem. N Engl J Med. 2013;369:894–6.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Fact Sheet on House’s Reconciliation Package & the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 American Rescue Plan. https://welch.house.gov/sites/welch.house.gov/files/EC%20Reconciliation%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Public Health Job Corps: Responding to COVID-19, Rebuilding the Community Health Workforce. https://www.pih.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/public-health-jobs-corps-memo_05.pdf. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Agarwal S, Kirk K, Sripad P, Bellows B, Abuya T, Warren C. Setting the global research agenda for community health systems: literature and consultative review. Hum Resour Health. 2019;17:22.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Frankel S. The community health worker: effective programmes for developing countries. Overview. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1992.
Google Scholar
Hazel E, Bryce J. IIP-JHU ICCM Evaluation Working Group: On bathwater, babies, and designing programs for impact: evaluations of the integrated community case management strategy in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016;94:568–70.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Freeman PA, Schleiff M, Sacks E, Rassekh BM, Gupta S, Perry HB. Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 4. child health findings. J Glob Health. 2017;7:010904.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Chou VB, Friberg IK, Christian M, Walker N, Perry HB. Expanding the population coverage of evidence-based interventions with community health workers to save the lives of mothers and children: an analysis of potential global impact using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). J Glob Health. 2017;7:020401.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Perry HB, Sacks E, Schleiff M, Kumapley R, Gupta S, Rassekh BM, Freeman PA. Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 6 strategies used by effective projects. J Glob Health. 2017;7:010906.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Oliphant NP, Manda S, Daniels K, Odendaal WA, Besada D, Kinney M, White Johansson E, Doherty T. Integrated community case management of childhood illness in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021;2:12882.
Google Scholar
Perry H, Robison N, Chavez D, Taja O, Hilari C, Shanklin D, Wyon J. Attaining health for all through community partnerships: principles of the census-based, impact-oriented (CBIO) approach to primary health care developed in Bolivia South America. Soc Sci Med. 1999;48:1053–67.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Vasudevan L. C G, Lewin S, Henschke N, Maayan N, Eyers J, Fonhus M, Tamrat T, Mehl G: Birth and death notification via mobile devices: a mixed methods review. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020;8:74.
Google Scholar
Odendaal W, Anstey Watkins J, Leon N, Daniels K. Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary health care services. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020;4:987.
Google Scholar
Countries must invest at least 1% more of GDP on primary health care to eliminate glaring coverage gaps. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/22-09-2019-countries-must-invest-at-least-1-more-of-gdp-on-primary-health-care-to-eliminate-glaring-coverage-gaps. Accessed 11 Apr 2021
Gichaga A, Masis L, Chandra A, Palazuelos D, Wakaba N. Mind the global community health funding gap. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021;9:S9–17.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Sherry M, Ghaffar A, Bishai D. Community platforms for health inferventions. In: Jamison D, Gelband H, Horton S, Jha P, Laxminarayan R, Mock C, Nugent R, editors. Disease control priorities: improving health and reducing poverty. Washington: The World Bank; 2018. p. 267–83.
Google Scholar
Covid-19: Community health workers as first line of defence. https://tbsnews.net/thoughts/covid-19-community-health-workers-first-line-defence-102379. Accessed 11 Apr 2021