Despite health gains over the past 30 years, children and adolescents are not reaching their
health potential in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). In addition to …

Objective To systematically review and critically appraise the evidence for the effects of
interventions to improve the performance of community health workers (CHWs) for …

Background There is a need for greater understanding of experiences implementing
community-based primary health care in humanitarian settings and of the adjustments …

The delivery of basic health products and services remains abysmal in many parts of the
world where child mortality is high. This paper shows the results from a large-scale …

Background Countries across sub-Saharan Africa are scaling up Community Health Worker
(CHW) programmes, yet there remains little high-quality research assessing strategies for …

Background There is considerable evidence that health systems, in so far as they ensure
access to healthcare, promote population health even independent of other determinants …

Abstract The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and partners have scaled up integrated
community case management (iCCM) and community-based newborn care (CBNC) …

The majority of the world's population lives in urban areas, and regions with the highest
under-five mortality rates are urbanising rapidly. This 7-year interrupted time series study …

Countries affected by conflict often experience the deterioration of health system
infrastructure and weaken service delivery. Evidence suggests that healthcare services that …

Background This paper assesses the effectiveness of community–based primary health care
(CBPHC) in improving child health beyond the neonatal period. Although there has been an …