Evidence of Community Health Worker Effectiveness

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Additional CHW Journal Articles from GHDP Bibliography

Admon AJ, Bazile J, Makungwa H, Amanah Chingoli M, Hirschhorn L, Peckarsky M, Rigodon J, Chingoli F, Malani P, Hedt-Gauthier B. Data Quality in a Rural Community Health Worker Program in Neno District, Malawi: Assessments, Interventions, and Recommendations. Public Health Action. 2013 Apr; 3(1).

Behforouz HL. Bridging the gap: a community health program saved lives, then closed its doors. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014 Nov 1;33(11):2064-7.

Furin J. The role of traditional healers in community-based HIV care in rural Lesotho. J Community Health. 2011 Oct; 36(5):849-856.

Greenspan JA, McMahon SA, Chebet JJ, Mpunga M, Urassa DP, Winch PJ. Sources of community health worker motivation: a qualitative study in Morogoro Region, Tanzania. Hum Resour Health. 2013 Oct 10;11(1):52. [Epub ahead of print].

Herce ME, Chapman JA, Castro A, García-Salyano G, Khoshnood K. A role for community health promoters in tuberculosis control in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. J Community Health. 2010 Apr; 35(2):182-189.

Jerome G, Ivers LC. Community health workers in health systems strengthening: a qualitative evaluation from rural Haiti. AIDS. 2010 Jan;24 Suppl 1:S67-72.

Mitsunaga T, Hedt-Gauthier B, Ngizwenayo E, Farmer DB, Karamaga A, Drobac P, Basinga P, Hirschhorn L, Ngabo F, Mugeni C. Utilizing community health worker data for program management and evaluation: systems for data quality assessments and baseline results from Rwanda. Soc Sci Med. 2013 May;85:87-92.

Palazuelos D, Diallo AB, Palazuelos L, Carlile N, Payne J, Franke MF. User Perceptions of an mHealth Medicine Dosing Tool for Community Health Workers (CHWs). Journal of Medical Internet Research mHealth. 2013. 1(1): e2.

Palazuelos D, Ellis K, Im DD, Peckarsky M, Schwarz D, Farmer DB, Dhillon R, Johnson A, Orihuela C, Hackett J, Bazile J, Berman L, Ballard M, Panjabi R, Ternier R, Slavin S, Lee S, Selinsky S, Mitnick CD. 5-SPICE: the application of an original framework for community health worker program design, quality improvement and research agenda setting. Glob Health Action. 2013 Apr 3;6:19658.

Schwarz D, Sharma R, Bashyal C, Schwarz R, Baruwal A, Karelas G, Basnet B, Khadka N, Brady J, Silver Z, Mukherjee J, Andrews J, Maru DS. Strengthening Nepal's female community health volunteer network: a qualitative study of experiences at two years. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014 Oct 9;14(1):473. [Epub ahead of print].

Kangovi S, Mukherjee J, Bohmer R, Fitzmaurice G. A Classification and meta-analysis of community-based directly observed therapy programs for tuberculosis treatment in developing countries. J Community Health. 2009 Dec;34(6):506-513.