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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"community health workers"”.
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Integrating community health workers in schools
… (PPACA) has set the tone for a radically revised health landscape in America that focuses on community-based care. Our health care system, however, has neither the infrastructure nor the vision to properly account for these demands. One possible solution is to redefine how established positions …
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Factors That Influence Mammography Use of Community Health Workers
<p>Community health worker (CHW) interventions promote early detection of breast cancer and mammography use to help eliminate health disparities for minority and low-income women. Data trends show lower mammography use among this population although CHW interventions have been shown to promote …
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Advancing equity in dementia care through community health workers
… These groups encounter systemic healthcare disparities, cultural barriers, and discrimination, leading to mistrust toward the healthcare system and underutilization of services. Given the limited culturally sensitive dementia interventions and cultural humility in the healthcare …
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Role of community health workers in addressing dementia: A global perspective
… dementia prevalence suggests a need for public health intervention. While prevention is crucial, lack of awareness, limited access to healthcare system and shortage of health workforce are significant shortcomings. Therefore, adopting a process that increases utilization of community health …
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Exploring the Experiences of Community Health Workers in the Dominican Republic Using Photovoice
<p>In order to mitigate the growing health worker shortage, many low-middle income countries (LMICs) use community health workers (CHWs) to extend health services to underserved communities. Community health workers are laypersons with minimal training who provide basic health services for they …
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Active CHWS: Advancing community health workers through physical activity awareness and health education
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Designing with community health workers: feedback-integrated multimedia learning for rural community health
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an integral part of the rural health system, and it is imperative that their voices are accommodated in digital health projects. In the mobile health education project discussed in this thesis (The Bophelo Haeso project), we sought to find ways to amplify CHWs' …
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Mobile tools for community health workers : an application of machine vision for mobile phones
According to a recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, as many as half of the world's population lack access to essential health services [1], a factor that contributes to the deaths of more than 5 million children every year. To tackle these problems, countries …
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Methods and madness : researching community health workers' perceptions of mental illness in Khayelitsha and Nyanga
… the use of qualitative methods to research community health workers' (CHWs) perceptions of mental health problems in Khayelitsha and Nyanga, two peri-urban Black townships in the Cape Town area. Since the historic WHO-UNICEF meeting at Alma-Ata in 1978, there has been widespread interest in …
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Community health workers in Kajiado County: an evaluation of the community health strategy in rural Kenya
… to rise until 2005 when the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MOH) introduced the Kenya Essential Package for Health (KEPH) in an effort to reverse its declining health indicators. The KEPH defined six service delivery levels which included the new community level, also known as level one. The Ministry …
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Community Health Workers: A Case Study of Far West Nepal
… the Government of Nepal has utilized Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) as liaisons between communities and the healthcare system. In 2015, the Government collaborated with a local non-profit organization, Nyaya Health Nepal (NHN), and a US-based non-profit organization (Possible) to …
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The chronic kidney disease journey of African Americans and Latinx: how can community health workers be an ally?
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in health care in South Africa and similar countries, but relatively little is known about CHW motivations and experiences in the provision of care. This thesis considers these issues in three parts: 1. A protocol for a study of community …
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Coping strategies of community health workers providing home-based care for HIV/AIDS : a comparison of high & low burnout groups
… study aims to explore the coping resources that community health workers (CHWs), providing home-based care to people with AIDS (PWAs), draw on in response to stressful work experiences. Furthermore, the study explores whether different coping mechanisms are utilised by health care workers at …
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Development of strategies for registered nurses to facilitate services rendered by community health workers in Hardap, Kavango east and Khomas regions, Namibia
With the adoption of the community health worker programme, the primary health care directorate of the ministry of health aimed at delivering family and community-centred promotive, preventive, rehabilitative and basic curative services to all citizens of Namibia. The programme’s services focused …
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Community participation in the recruitment of community health workers: a case study of the three community health worker programmes in South Africa
… research investigates the nature and extent of community participation and involvement in the recruitment and selection processes for Community Health Workers (CHWs), primarily through detailed case studies of three CHW programmes, one in the Western Cape, another in KwaZulu-Natal, and a third …
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Investigating the Feasibility of Community Health Workers as Teleaudiology Patient-Site Facilitators: A Strategy to Improve Access to Hearing Aid Services for Older Adults
… and rural populations who may benefit most. Community Health Workers (CHWs) are non-medical public health workers from their community who help improve patient access, including by connecting patients to services and by improving the cultural-relevance of health information. CHWs may be …
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The development of a framework to guide and support the implementation of ICT solutions for community health workers in resource-constrained settings within the South African context
Globally, community health workers (CHWs) are recognised as a common equaliser in both developing and developed contexts to realise universal health care coverage (UHC). In South Africa, the longstanding impact of CHWs predates the establishment of post-democratic governmental structures, with …
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