Using mobile phones to improve community health workers performance in low-and-middle-income countries

A Feroz, R Jabeen, S Saleem - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
… In two districts of Zambia, Community Health Management Information System (C-HMIS) …
real-time community-based health information to all levels of the health care system in Zambia; …

Public health system challenges in the Free State, South Africa: A situation appraisal to inform health system strengthening

B Malakoane, JC Heunis, P Chikobvu… - BMC health services …, 2020 - Springer
… The local community health centres and some district hospitals were particularly negatively
affected by unavailability of health information system hardware and software. In the main, …

Effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention at scale in west and central Africa: an observational study

E Baba, P Hamade, H Kivumbi, M Marasciulo… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
… , as reported in national health management information systems in Burkina Faso and The
… or community health workers [CHWs], referred to jointly as CHWs in this Article) and health

[PDF][PDF] Health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes for HIV, TB and malaria services: an evidence guide

World Health Organization - 2020 - apps.who.int
health workers and access to essential health services linked to geography, poverty and
social access barriers (1, 2). Communities … teams, including community health workers (CHWs), …

One country's journey to interoperability: Tanzania's experience developing and implementing a national health information exchange

A Nsaghurwe, V Dwivedi, W Ndesanjo, H Bamsi… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2021 - Springer
… multiple standalone information systems and domains is a critical tool for unlocking the
power of data in increasingly digitized health information systems. Developing an interoperable …

Community health workers for pandemic response: a rapid evidence synthesis

S Bhaumik, S Moola, J Tyagi, D Nambiar, M Kakoti - BMJ Global Health, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
… , restrictions on movement and increased prioritisation pandemic work were identified as
key challenges for routine supervision and health information systems management.25 37 …

[HTML][HTML] Contact tracing and the COVID-19 response in Africa: best practices, key challenges, and lessons learned from Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda

JB Nachega, R Atteh, C Ihekweazu… - The American Journal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of technology innovations; applied public health expertise; deployment of community health
workers; and robust community … workers Leveraging information technology to complement …

Disruption in essential health services in Mexico during COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis of health information system data

SV Doubova, HH Leslie, ME Kruk, R Pérez-Cuevas… - … global health, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
… the IMSS health information system, an administrative data source that may contain errors.
Nonetheless, the IMSS health information system staff conduct regular follow-up with health

Climate change and health preparedness in Africa: analysing trends in six African countries

SK Opoku, WL Filho, F Hubert, O Adejumo - … Research and Public Health, 2021 - mdpi.com
… appears principally in Southern Africa and the Sahelian part of Western Africa, where there
… in 2017 the impact of severe flooding in the West and Central Africa axes [1]. The incident …

Disruptions in maternal health service use during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: experiences from 37 health facilities in low-income and middle-income countries

Z Aranda, T Binde, K Tashman, A Tadikonda… - … global health, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
health information systems data. We focus on data from 37 non-governmental
organisation-supported health … the government in introducing the community health promoter …