Community Health Worker Programs: A Review of Recent Literature

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Community Health Worker Programs: A Review of Recent Literature

Author(s):

Fazila K. Shakir

Partners:

USAID, URC, HCI

Topics: Community health workers, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Program design, Program evaluation

Year:

2010

Region and Country: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Iran, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, Nicaragua, Peru, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

Language:

English

This paper reviews recently published literature on community health worker programs, primarily focusing on maternal and newborn child health. Eighteen CHW programs and eleven relevant articles were included. It identifies key components of successful CHWs programs, reviews past successes and failures of CHW program implementation and summarizes important lessons learned.

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