نتایج جستجو برای: community health worker

تعداد نتایج: 1271530  

2015
Maria R. Capobianchi Cesare E. M. Gruber Fabrizio Carletti Silvia Meschi Concetta Castilletti Francesco Vairo Mirella Biava Claudia Minosse Gino Strada Gina Portella Rossella Miccio Valeria Minardi Luca Rolla Abdul Kamara Giovanni Chillemi Alessandro Desideri Antonino Di Caro Giuseppe Ippolito

We report the complete genome sequence of Ebola virus from a health worker linked to a cluster of cases occurring in the fishing community of Aberdeen, Sierra Leone (February 2015), which were characterized by unusually severe presentation. The sequence, clustering in the SL subclade 3.2.4, harbors mutations potentially relevant for pathogenesis.

2015
Peter O Nkwo Lucky O Lawani Agozie C Ubesie Vincent A Onodugo Herbert A Obu Josephat M Chinawa

BACKGROUND The Government of Enugu State plans to offer free perinatal services at the primary health care (PHC) centers in order to improve perinatal outcomes in the state, but it was not clear whether there are skilled birth attendants (SBAs) at the PHC level to implement the program. AIMS To determine whether there are sufficient numbers of SBAs in the public PHC system in Enugu State of N...

Journal: :American Journal of Public Health 1973

Background Community Health Workers (CHWs) are proven to be highly effective in low- and middle-income countries with many examples of successful large-scale programs. There is growing interest in deploying CHW programs in high-income countries to address inequity in healthcare access and outcomes amongst population groups facing disadvantage. This study is the first that examines the scope and...

Journal: :Social work 2003
Patricia C Spencer Shari Munch

With the shift in mental health treatment from psychiatric hospitals to community agencies, mental health workers provide outreach interventions to clientele with increasingly acute psychiatric disorders in their neighborhoods and residences. This article examines job-related, client-perpetrated threats or physical violence against social workers in general, and community outreach mental health...

2012
Thiagrajan Sundararaman Rajani Ved Garima Gupta M Samatha

Introduction In 2005, Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA, a female community health worker), program was launched as part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), a flagship program of the government of India. With 846,809 ASHAs across 31 states and union territories, the program has grown to become the most important facet of the NRHM. The ASHA is a woman selected by the community, wh...

2016
Roseanne C. Schuster Octávio de Sousa Jacqueline Rivera Rebecca Olson Delphine Pinault Sera L. Young

BACKGROUND Performance-based incentives (PBIs) have garnered global attention as a promising strategy to improve healthcare delivery to vulnerable populations. However, literature gaps in the context in which an intervention is implemented and how the PBIs were developed exist. Therefore, we (1) characterized the barriers and promoters to prevention of vertical transmission of HIV (PVT) service...

2017
Henry Perry Lauren Crigler Simon Lewin Claire Glenton Karen LeBan Steve Hodgins

Large-scale community health worker programs are now growing in importance around the world in response to the resurgence of interest and growing evidence of the importance of community-based primary health care for improving the health of populations in resource-constrained, high-mortality settings. These programs, because of their scale and operational challenges, merit special consideration ...

Journal: :African health sciences 2014
David Musoke Petra Boynton Ceri Butler Miph Boses Musoke

BACKGROUND The health seeking behaviour of a community determines how they use health services. Utilisation of health facilities can be influenced by the cost of services, distance to health facilities, cultural beliefs, level of education and health facility inadequacies such as stock-out of drugs. OBJECTIVES To assess the health seeking practices and challenges in utilising health facilitie...

Background The Community Mine Continuation Agreement Middle (CMCA) and South Fly Health Program (the Health Program) is a partnership for improving health service delivery in remote Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Health Program is delivered by a private contractor working in partnership with existing health service providers to improve service delivery using existing government systems, where poss...

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