نتایج جستجو برای: community health worker

تعداد نتایج: 1271530  

2016
Mary V. Kinney Jeffrey Michael Smith Tanya Doherty Jorge Hermida Karen Daniels José M. Belizán

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), particularly pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, remain one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and are contributory in many foetal/newborn deaths. This editorial discusses a supplement of seven papers which provide the results of the first round of the CLIP (Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia) Feasibility Studies. These studies report a ...

2014
Dan Schwarz Ranju Sharma Chhitij Bashyal Ryan Schwarz Ashma Baruwal Gregory Karelas Bibhusan Basnet Nirajan Khadka Jesse Brady Zach Silver Joia Mukherjee Jason Andrews Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru

BACKGROUND Nepal's Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) program has been described as an exemplary public-sector community health worker program. However, despite its merits, the program still struggles to provide high-quality, accessible services nation-wide. Both in Nepal and globally, best practices for community health worker program implementation are not yet known: there is a dearth o...

Journal: :iranian red crescent medical journal 0
fatemeh estebsari department of health education and promotion, school of public health, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran mohammad hossein taghdisi department of health education and promotion, school of public health, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; department of health education and promotion, school of public health, iran university of medical sciences, alvand ave., tehran, ir iran. tel/fax: +98-2188779118 abbas rahimi foroushani department of epidemiology and biostatistics, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran hasan eftekhar ardebili department of health education and promotion, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran davoud shojaeizadeh department of health education and promotion, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

conclusions: focusing on successful aging and adopting hpbs can prevent and decrease aging problems which in turn decreases the financial burden and related costs. this is especially important for the policy and decision makers of the health systems. results: the mean age of the participants in this study was 65.9 ± 3.6 (range 60-73). results showed a statistically significant difference betwee...

2013
Ilona Verhagen Wynand JG Ros Bas Steunenberg Niek J de Wit

BACKGROUND In Western countries, health and social welfare facilities are not easily accessible for elderly immigrants and their needs are suboptimally addressed. A transition is needed towards culturally sensitive services to overcome barriers to make cure and care accessible for elderly immigrants. We developed an intervention programme in which ethnic community health workers act as liaisons...

Journal: :Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 1998
E A Parker A J Schulz B A Israel R Hollis

In recent years, there have been few reports in the literature of interventions using a lay health advisor approach in an urban area. Consequently, little is known about how implementation of this type of community health worker model, which has been used extensively in rural areas, may differ in an urban area. This article describes the implementation of the East Side Village Health Worker Par...

2015
Rodrick Sambakunsi Moses Kumwenda Augustine Choko Elizabeth L. Corbett Nicola Ann Desmond

The category of community health worker applied within the context of health intervention trials has been promoted as a cost-effective approach to meeting study objectives across large populations, relying on the promotion of the concept of 'community belonging' to encourage altruistic volunteerism from community members to promote health. This community-based category of individuals is recruit...

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