mHealth plus community health worker interventions: the future research agenda

Outcomes of community health worker interventions.

OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review of the evidence on characteristics of community health workers (CHWs) and CHW interventions, outcomes of such interventions, costs and cost-effectiveness of CHW interventions, and characteristics of CHW training. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, Cochrane Collaboration resources, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature for stu...

Identifying the core elements of effective community health worker programs: a research agenda.

Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being incorporated into health programs because they are assumed to effectively deliver health messages in a culturally relevant manner to disenfranchised communities. Nevertheless, the role of CHWs-who they are, what they do, and how they do it-is tremendously varied. This variability presents a number of challenges for conducting research to d...

5-SPICE: the application of an original framework for community health worker program design, quality improvement and research agenda setting

INTRODUCTION Despite decades of experience with community health workers (CHWs) in a wide variety of global health projects, there is no established conceptual framework that structures how implementers and researchers can understand, study and improve their respective programs based on lessons learned by other CHW programs. OBJECTIVE To apply an original, non-linear framework and case study ...

Community Health Worker Programmes

Management challenges in mHealth: failures of a mobile community health worker surveillance programme in rural Nepal

To cite: Meyers DJ, Filkins M, Harsha Bangura A, et al. BMJ Innov Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjinnov2015-000102 ABSTRACT Community health workers form the backbone of healthcare systems globally. The rapid expansion of mobile communications systems represents an opportunity to improve the productivity of community health workers in rural areas. Here, we...