Background Community health volunteers (CHVs) play crucial roles in enabling access to
healthcare at the community levels. Although CHVs are considered volunteers, programmes …

Introduction There is a renewed global interest in improving community health worker
(CHW) programmes. For CHW programmes to be effective, key intervention design factors …

Motivating community health workers (CHWs), many of whom are volunteers, is important for
the sustainability of integrated community case management programs. Given the limited …

Background Community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in supporting health
systems, and in improving the availability and accessibility to health care. However, CHW …

Introduction Community health workers (CHWs) constitute the majority of primary healthcare
(PHC) workers in Nigeria, yet little is understood about their motivations or the most effective …

Community health worker (CHW) programmes are currently being scaled-up in sub-Saharan
Africa to improve access to healthcare. CHWs are often volunteers; from an economic …

Background Community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in supporting health
systems, and in improving accessibility to primary healthcare. In many settings CHW …

Background: Maximizing the benefits of community health worker (CHW) programs requires
strategies for improving motivation, performance, and retention. Discrete choice experiments …

Community health volunteers (CHVs) act as vital links between communities and health
facilities, bridging the health service delivery gap common in low-and middle-income …

Background Health worker shortage in rural areas is one of the biggest problems of the
health sector in Ghana and many developing countries. This may be due to fewer incentives …