Background This is the ninth paper in our series,“Community Health Workers at the Dawn of
a New Era”. Community health workers (CHWs) are in an intermediary position between the …

Background: Over 250 million children in low-and middle-income countries are at risk of not
achieving their fullest developmental potential due to co-occurring risks such as poor …

Background The recent publication of the WHO guideline on support to optimise community
health worker (CHW) programmes illustrates the renewed attention for the need to …

Background There is now rapidly growing global awareness of the potential of large-scale
community health worker (CHW) programmes not only for improving population health but …

Health systems are social institutions, in which health worker performance is shaped by
transactional processes between different actors. This analytical assessment unravels the …

This paper is a critical interpretive synthesis of community health workers (CHWs) and
accountability in low-income and middle-income countries. The guiding questions were …

Supportive supervision is an important element of community health worker (CHW)
programmes and is believed to improve CHW motivation and performance. A group …

Background Effective referral systems from the community to the health care facility are
essential to save lives and ensure quality and a continuum of care. The effectiveness of …

Introduction Devolution reforms in Indonesia and Kenya have brought extensive changes to
governance structures and mechanisms for financing and delivering healthcare. Community …

Abstract Close-to-community (CTC) providers have been identified as a key cadre to
progress universal health coverage and address inequities in health service provision due …