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The global pendulum swing towards community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of trends, geographical distribution and programmatic orientations, 2005 to 2014

Human resources for health, 2016-10, Vol.14 (1), p.65-65, Article 65 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2016 BioMed Central Ltd. ;Copyright BioMed Central 2016 ;The Author(s). 2016 ;ISSN: 1478-4491 ;EISSN: 1478-4491 ;DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0163-2 ;PMID: 27784298

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  • Title:
    The global pendulum swing towards community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of trends, geographical distribution and programmatic orientations, 2005 to 2014
  • Author: Schneider, Helen ; Okello, Dickson ; Lehmann, Uta
  • Subjects: Africa ; Asia ; Brazil ; Community Health Workers ; Developing Countries ; Distribution ; Environmental aspects ; Global Health ; Health Services - manpower ; Humans ; Medical personnel ; Review
  • Is Part Of: Human resources for health, 2016-10, Vol.14 (1), p.65-65, Article 65
  • Description: There has been a substantial increase in publications and interest in community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) over the last years. This paper examines the growth, geographical distribution and programmatic orientations of the indexed literature on CHWs in LMIC over a 10-year period. A scoping review of publications on CHWs from 2005 to 2014 was conducted. Using an inclusive list of terms, we searched seven databases (including MEDLINE, CINAHL, Cochrane) for all English-language publications on CHWs in LMIC. Two authors independently screened titles/abstracts, downloading full-text publications meeting inclusion criteria. These were coded in an Excel spreadsheet by year, type of publication (e.g. review, empirical), country, region, programmatic orientation (e.g. maternal-child health, HIV/AIDS, comprehensive) and CHW roles (e.g. prevention, treatment) and further analysed in Stata14. Drawing principally on the subset of review articles, specific roles within programme areas were identified and grouped. Six hundred seventy-eight publications from 46 countries on CHWs were inventoried over the 10-year period. There was a sevenfold increase in annual number of publications from 23 in 2005 to 156 in 2014. Half the publications were reporting on initiatives in Africa, a third from Asia and 11 % from the Americas (mostly Brazil). The largest single focus and driver of the growth in publications was on CHW roles in meeting the Millennium Development Goals of maternal, child and neonatal survival (35 % of total), followed by HIV/AIDS (16 %), reproductive health (6 %), non-communicable diseases (4 %) and mental health (4 %). Only 17 % of the publications approached CHW roles in an integrated fashion. There were also distinct regional (and sometimes country) profiles, reflecting different histories and programme traditions. The growth in literature on CHWs provides empirical evidence of ever-increasing expectations for addressing health burdens through community-based action. This literature has a strong disease- or programme-specific orientation, raising important questions for the design and sustainable delivery of integrated national programmes.
  • Publisher: England: BioMed Central Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1478-4491
    EISSN: 1478-4491
    DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0163-2
    PMID: 27784298
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
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