Listening to Community Health Workers: How Ethnographic Research Can Inform Positive Relationships Among Community Health Workers, Health Institutions, and Communities

Community Based Health Workers

This chapter examines the use of various categories of Community Based Health Workers as first line health workers in dealing with important health and social issues, for example with Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. It attempts to answer certain key issues: Are Community Based Health Workers valuable and cost effective? What should be their role? To whom should they be accountable? In what way shoul...

Community health workers combat readmission.

M R ALBERTS IS THE classic " frequent flyer. " At age 60 years, he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, anxiety, and chronic pulmonary emboli. Formerly a computer network engineer , he has been unemployed since 2010. He was admitted to the hospital 4 times within the first 6 months of 2011. His cumulative charges to Medicaid were $82 952— substantially higher than the na-tion's median in...

Community health workers in Gazankulu.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to give a brief description of the utilization of community health workers (CHWs) in Gazankulu. The general policy framework in which these health workers function is described briefly, and the way in which these workers function evaluated. This paper is intended as a modest contribution to evaluation research in the field of community health. DEPARTMENT OF...

Stigma Related to HIV among Community Health Workers in Chile.

PURPOSE: When healthcare workers have stigmatizing attitudes toward people living with HIV it may lead to discriminatory behavior that interferes with prevention, treatment, and care. This research examined the HIV-related stigmatizing attitudes reported by health workers in Santiago, Chile. METHODS: The study used focus group data from the first phase of a larger study to develop and test a H...

Improving the Health and Safety of Community Health Workers