Community-level integration of health services and community health workers' agency in Malawi

C Ngwira, SH Mayhew, E Hutchinson - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
… In situating HSAs at the centre of everything, structuration theory helped in exploring … some
health workers that communities prioritised teachers' housing other than HSAs was complex. …

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction: tensions confronting large-scale CHW programmes

S Hodgins, M Kok, D Musoke, S Lewin, L Crigler… - Health Research Policy …, 2021 - Springer
… [31] also point to the intermediary position occupied by CHWs… In summary, a CHW is one
actor in a complex dynamic PHC … For these functions, effectiveness can be enhanced if the …

Moving from community-based to health centre-based management: impact on urban community health worker performance in Ethiopia

T Ludwick, M Endriyas, A Morgan… - Health Policy and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Community health workers (CHWs) are important intermediaries between communities and
health … ● Decreased embeddedness of UHEPs in community 2.10 In general, it is difficult to …

Contested notions of challenges affecting Community Health Workers in low-and middle-income countries informed by the Silences Framework

D Musoke, M Nyashanu, H Bugembe… - … resources for health, 2022 - Springer
… work is adequately assessed and constantly reviewed not to compromise their performance.
… solutions to the complex health needs of their communities. We argue that investing in this …

Boundaries and infomediaries: A qualitative study of the information practices of community health workers

RM Shapiro II - 2020 - uknowledge.uky.edu
… efficacy and effectiveness of community health workers, less … social theories that situate
action within the individual. Social … worker to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between health/…

Factors influencing the performance of community health workers: a qualitative study of Anganwadi workers from Bihar, India

A John, N Nisbett, I Barnett, R Avula, P Menon - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… Operating as a unique intermediary between communities and public health systems, CHWs
… This connects to the theoretical literature situating CHWs as operating both within complex

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships

MM Afzal, GW Pariyo, ZS Lassi, HB Perry - Health Research Policy and …, 2021 - Springer
… An analytical assessment that we report elsewhere in Paper 10 of this series [18] attempts
to unravel the complex and interconnected factors that influence the performance of CHW …

Professionalization as a “double-edged sword”: assessing the professional citizenship of community health workers in the Midwest

RI Logan - Human Organization, 2021 - meridian.allenpress.com
… Additionally, I situate these issues within race, ethnicity, … the worker to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary
between health/… and alter the potential effectiveness of these workers. Due to …

… role of healthcare activist and homemaker: a mixed-methods exploration of the workload of community health workers (Accredited Social Health Activists) in India

A Kawade, M Gore, P Lele, U Chavan… - … resources for health, 2021 - Springer
within the local community, being endorsed by the health system, but not necessarily part of
it and having shorter training than professional workers [… complementary for itseffectiveness, …

Governance of community health worker programs in a decentralized health system: a qualitative study in the Philippines

W Dodd, A Kipp, B Nicholson, LL Lau, M Little… - BMC Health Services …, 2021 - Springer
… an intermediary between health systems and communities, … is a complex task, with some
health care workers and non-… impact the effectiveness of the Pakistan Lady Health Worker (LHW…