Close-to-community (CTC) health workers play a vital role in providing sexual and
reproductive health services in low-income urban settlements in Bangladesh. Retention of …

Background Contraceptive services are essential for promoting people's health, and
economic and social well-being. Despite increased contraceptive use over the past …

Background Ensuring that Community Health Workers (CHWs) are motivated is critical to
their performance, retention and well-being–and ultimately to the effectiveness of community …

Background Community health workers (CHW) have grown in prominence within the
healthcare sector, yet there is no clear consensus regarding a CHW's role, purpose, and …

Background While community participation is an established pro-equity approach in Primary
Health Care (PHC), it can take many forms, and the central category of power is under …

Background Despite the proven efficacy of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in
promoting primary healthcare in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), they are not …

Despite a large literature on integration of health services, there is a dearth of scholarship
assessing service integration in its totality at the community level. Similarly, across the wide …

Background An interest in, and the need for, Community Health Workers (CHWs) in the
United States is growing exponentially. CHWs possess a unique ability to relate to and build …

In The Lancet Global Health, Madeleine Ballard and colleagues1 report on dual-cadre
systems, in which unsalaried community health workers work alongside paid health-care …

Research calls for community health worker (CHW) integration within health systems, yet
there is no agreement regarding what CHW integration is or guidance for how it can be …