BACKGROUND Underserved ethnic minority women experience significant disparities in cervical cancer incidence and mortality, mainly due to lack of cervical cancer screening. Barriers to Pap smear screening include lack of knowledge, lack of health insurance and access, and cultural beliefs regarding disease prevention. In our previous SUCCESS trial, we demonstrated that HPV self-sampling deliver...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the performance motivation of community health workers (CHWs) and its determinants on India's Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) programme. DESIGN Cross-sectional study employing mixed-methods approach involved survey and focus group discussions. SETTING The state of Orissa. PARTICIPANTS 386 CHWs representing 10% of the total CHWs in the chosen district...

BACKGROUND Stroke is the second leading cause of mortality and the leading cause of disability in the world today. The disease burden is on the rise in developing nations, but there is scarcity of data from these regions to inform policy decisions. Stroke burden can be determined by clinical diagnosis alone in the public health context and is a far more feasible way to assess disease status in ...

Background Community health worker (CHW) programmes are a valuable component of primary care in resource-poor settings. The evidence supporting their effectiveness generally shows improvements disease-specific outcomes relative to the absence CHW programme. In this study, we evaluated expanding an existing HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programme into polyvalent, household-based model that subsequen...

We propose a novel algorithm for computing the Walsh Hadamard Transform (WHT) which consists entirely of Haar wavelet transforms. We prove that the algorithm, which we call the Cascading Haar Wavelet (CHW) algorithm, shares precisely the same serial complexity as the popular divideand-conquer algorithm for the WHT. We also propose a natural way of parallelizing the algorithm which has a number ...

• Automated Content Analysis provides clarity to 1116 articles on coastal zone indicators. Quadruple Helix Stakeholders from Ghana provide clear insight indicator needs. Literature and stakeholder-based (Ghana) sub-categories are combined New proposed for current frameworks (e.g. CHW). Further research visualize indicators should strengthen management. Coastal management is a pressing matter, e...

COVID-19 is an infectious disease and can be transmitted from humans to through infected air droplets during coughing sneezing or though contact with contaminated hands surfaces. By March 01st 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) reported 113,820,168 confirmed cases globally, among them 2,851,062 are the continent of Africa. Rwanda 18,850 cases, 261 deaths. Healthcare systems have been burdene...

As the impact of stroke continues, number people who require rehabilitation will also increase. This research aims to describe epidemiological profile individuals with in a population assisted within Family Health Strategy Brazil. We used data from real-world database generated by free collection app Community Workers ( CHW) May 2015 January 2021 identify survivors, and assess demographics clin...