The Future of Community Health Workers in Global Health

Community health workers are cost-saving, life-saving, and key to preventing and stopping pandemics. Yet community health workers are also underutilized.

Health for the People: Past, Current, and Future Contributions of ...

National community health worker programs are at the dawn of a new era, given the growing recognition of their importance for achieving global health goals.

Community Health Workers - Global Fund

Community health workers are at the heart of what we do – they are critical to fighting HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, and achieving universal health ...

Community Health Workers - experiences, perspectives and future ...

Philipa Mladovsky. Associate Professor in International Development. Join us and the award-winning Community Health Impact Coalition at LSE to ...

Role and Future Directions of Community Health Workers in the ...

This report suggests one critical resource for a reimagined public health workforce—community health worker (CHWs). CHWs are a community-centric, culturally- ...

Community health workers: A sustainable health system innovation ...

... future contributions of national community health worker programs to achieving global health goals. Global Health Sci Pract. (2021) 9:1–9 ...

The Future of Global Health Starts with Health Workers | IntraHealth

In the global health community, we often focus on results and big numbers. How many people have we reached? How many screenings, tests, ...

What does the future of community healthcare look like? - Medtronic

Community health workers are increasingly critical to expanding ... the World Health Organization (WHO) are encouraging countries to do more.

Panel - Part 2: Strengthening Global Health Systems: Investing in ...

Community health workers (CHWs) are a vital yet oft-overlooked aspect of public health systems, providing a crucial link between front-line ...

Health workforce - World Health Organization (WHO)

These are compounded by difficulties in deploying health workers to rural, remote and underserved areas. Moreover, the increasing international migration of ...

Allied Health Workforce Projections, 2016-2030

Community Health Workers: Health System Integration,. Financing ... and modeling methodologies may support CHW supply projections in the future.

The Future of Health Workforce

Leading global health leaders and communities from around the world have been raising the alarm as the growing workforce shortage continues to worsen ...

“Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era:” a Reflection ...

When planning future CHW programs or revising existing ones, there are many considerations to make. The New Era authors emphasize the need for ...

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Programme ...

... global goals and to prevent and respond to future pandemics. Investing in CHWs can lead to short-term and long-term cost savings in the ...

Payment of community health workers - The Lancet Global Health

Addati, L ∙ Cattaneo, U ∙ Esquivel, V ∙ et al. Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work. International Labour Organization, Geneva, 2018.

Concept Note: Community Health Workers

... CHW program design, and outlines future ... community health workers presented in the Cases in Global Health Delivery collection.

These workers can be pivotal in improving U.S. health equity

... community health workers. This is great news for the future of community health worker programs, the study authors said. “The time is ripe ...

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction

Community health worker (CHW) programmes are again receiving more attention in global health, as ... CHWs in the future of PHC? First, it ...

Opinion: Community health workers — key to reach global ... - Devex

Community health workers play a key role in providing health coverage to under-resourced populations around the world.

Community Health Workers in Pandemics: Evidence and Investment ...

In the context of increasing global health insecurity and a burgeoning health workforce crisis, this trend must change. The coronavirus disease ...