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Community Health Worker Reference Toolkit – A Toolkit for integrating CHWs in the formal healthcare system

Amref Health Africa (2021) CC

The CHW Toolkit assists the assessment, improvement, and planning of CHW programs by deepening understanding of the elements of successful programs and the use of best practices as an evidence-based approach to improvement. The toolkit is framed around ten key themes that describe the definition, entry level, age, gender, recruitment, training, scope of work, supervision, career progression, entry level and remuneration of CHWs

Tags: CHW training program, CHW, Community Health Worker (CHW), Training, Capacity Building, toolkit, healthcare, Healthcare systems,

Source: https://amref.org/download/community-hea

"Community Health" Community of Practice (CH CoP)

Collectivity (2021) CC

The Community Health Community of Practice (CH CoP) builds on the Institutionalisation Community Health Conference co-hosted by USAID and UNICEF in Johannesburg in March 2017. Conceived as an ‘open space’ in terms of both contribution and access to knowledge, it aims at gathering practitioners, policy makers, researchers, program implementers and other experts actively involved in the technical or policy development of community health programs in low- and middle-income countries. It offers a network to share your country experience with other countries facing similar challenges; access to global knowledge on community health and its institutionalisation; opportunities for learning, exchanging and debating; constant information on new theoretical, operational or empirical developments in this domain of knowledge. The CoP is facilitated by an international team based in Africa, Asia and Europe. The CH CoP is supported by UNICEF in collaboration with USAID. accessed 23.07.2021 Collectivity Platform has more group networks to join. The Platform is also available in French

Tags: community health, network, internet platform, community health workers, health system strengthening, primary care,

Source: https://www.thecollectivity.org/en/commu

Community Health Worker Aim Tool

Community Health Impact Coalition (2021) CC

Health systems the world over have embraced the value of community health workers (CHWs) in extending essential services to the community level, improving health equity and progressing toward universal health coverage. Governments now have an opportunity to institutionalize CHW programs and professionalize this essential cadre of the health workforce. What will it take to ensure CHW programs, at scale, can achieve their full potential? Fortunately, policymakers, funders, NGOs, and other partners seeking to design, revamp, or strengthen CHW programs have a suite of tools at their disposal. One of the longest-standing and most rigorously field-tested of these tools is the Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix (CHW AIM), an assessment tool which can be used to design, evaluate and strengthen CHW programs. You can find this assessment tool on this page here. The matrix is also downloaded on MEDBOX, but if you want, you can register for free and get the matrix. After that follow the points underneath. accessed 23.07.2021 also available in [Français] [Español

Tags: community health workers, CHW training program, CHW, evaluation programms, health equity, universal health coverage, internet platform,

Source: https://chwimpact.org/chw-aim

PACK Brasil Adulto COVID-19 (Florianópolis, Brasil) Março de 2021 - March 2021

PACK; Knowledge Translation Unit, Prefeitura Florianópolis, et al. (2021) CC

Practical Approach to Care Kit Kit de Cuidados em Atenção Primária Guia de manejo clínico da COVID 19 para Atenção Primária O PACK Brasil é uma parceria entre a Unidade de Tradução do Conhecimento (KTU), Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Florianópolis/SC, BMJ e Fundação ProAR. A Fundação ProAR é a líder oficial das atividades do PACK no Brasil. Mais informações sobre a ProAR podem ser encontradas em: www.fundacaoproar.org.br O PACK foi adaptado, traduzido, implementado e avaliado em serviços de atenção primária brasileiros entre 2015 e 2017. Um ensaio clínico randomizado concluiu que o PACK qualificou o atendimento clínico de pacientes adultos com doenças respiratórias crônicas na atenção primária e apoiou o compartilhamento do cuidado entre médicos e enfermeiros. Desde então, foi revisado anualmente, estando alinhado com as políticas públicas locais. Em 2021, foi desenvolvido conteúdos adicionais sobre o manejo da COVID-19

Tags: primary health care, COVID-19, Brazil, caregivers, clinical care, Community Health Worker (CHW),

Source: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/downl

A Guide For Patients, Family Members And Community Caregivers - Caregiver Booklet

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Accessed 21 July 2021:The Caregiver Booklet is designed to help patients,family members, and community caregivers in the home-based care of serious long term illness. Home care is best for many people with long term illnesses,including those who are close to the end of life. All patients being cared for at home should be first assessed and treated by a health worker, who will help caregivers provide high quality home care and ensure that medicines are taken correctly. This booklet explains how to: 1. Deal with specific symptoms. 2. Provide care for terminal and bedridden patients at home. 3. Decide when to seek help from a health facility

Tags: caregivers, community, community care, community health workers, patient care, family, home care, healthcare, ARV, antiretrovirals, TB, palliative care,

Source: https://www.who.int/hiv/pub/imai/en/imai

CHW Central Resources

CHW Central (2021) CC

Accessed 15 July 2021 Your source for information about community health workers around the globe. Search Resources Learn More CHW Central believes that community health workers are key to achieving universal health coverage and reducing global health inequities. As the preeminent global resource on CHWs and CHW programs, CHW Central increases access to online information to improve the quality of CHW programs and services. We advocate for CHWs to be appropriately integrated into the global health workforce and represented and connected through strong networks and associations

Tags: CHW, Community Health Worker (CHW), resource platform,

Source: https://chwcentral.org/

Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute Western Cape Department of Health (2021) CC

Updated May 2021. Manual 3. The Practical Approach to Care Kit – PACK – is used by nurses, doctors and community health workers in their everyday work to care for patients at the clinic and in the community –PACK Adult, PACK Adolescent, PACK Child and PACK Community.PACK Home is designed for people seeking more information about how to care for their own health and the health of their family at home.Collect and read all the PACK Home volumes in English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu or Sesotho Download the different languages: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/pack/pack-home

Tags: community health care, COVID-19, Training manual, Home based Care, infection control, Chronic Disease,

Source: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/downl

Wood, D.; A. Dramowski and R. Turner (2021) C1

Community health workers (CHWs) serve as a very important direct link between patients, communities and health services. As trusted on-the-ground support to community members, they therefore expand access to essential healthcare information as well as available treatment and prevention programmes. This course book provides appropriate, cost-effective, and sustainable targeted learning for the large numbers of emerging community health workers in South Africa

Tags: COVID-19, Training manual, community health workers, protection, infection control, diagnosis and treatment,

Source: https://bettercare.co.za/learn/covid-19-

Manual for running a mobile clinic: Adapted for the North-West & South-West regions of Cameroon

Health Cluster, Nutrition Cluster, OCHA (2021) CC

In emergency or humanitarian settings, mobile clinics are used to bring essential lifesaving health care to communities affected by crises. Though there are standard emergency benefit packages for health services during emergencies, there are however no agreed or standard way of running mobile clinics in such settings. Drawing on the experiences of running mobile clinics in the NWSW and relevant literature, this manual provides a practical example of how to set up and run a mobile clinic in an African humanitarian setting in hard to reach communities with limited resources

Tags: mobile clinic, humanitarian settings, Nutrition, community,

Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in

The Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) Nigeria

Knowledge Translation Unit, BMJ and Health Resources International West Africa (HRIWA) (2021) CC

PACK Nigeria (Adult and Child) provides a single, integrated, comprehensive, evidence-informed clinical guide to support all cadres working in primary healthcare in Nigeria: i.e. junior community health extension workers (JCHEWs), community health extension workers (CHEWs), community health officers (CHOs), nurses, midwives and medical officers. Colour-coding is used to clearly delineate the scope of practice of these different cadres and clarify referral pathways. This integration promotes a team-based approach to a patient’s care and enables patients to receive consistent and standardized care from whichever cadre treats them. You can register for free and get the PACK Global Adult Guide for fre

Tags: Health Workers, healthcare, primary care, PACK, community health workers, nurses, practical approach, low and middle-income countries,

Source: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/pack/

	Community Health Worker Reference Toolkit – A Toolkit for integrating CHWs in the formal healthcare system Amref Health Africa (2021) CC Open external link (208) Add to my MEDBOX The CHW Toolkit assists the assessment, improvement, and planning of CHW programs by deepening understanding of the elements of successful programs and the use of best practices as an evidence-based approach to improvement. The toolkit is framed around ten key themes that describe the definition, entry level, age, gender, recruitment, training, scope of work, supervision, career progression, entry level and remuneration of CHWs Tags: CHW training program, CHW, Community Health Worker (CHW), Training, Capacity Building, toolkit, healthcare, Healthcare systems, Source: https://amref.org/download/community-hea
	"Community Health" Community of Practice (CH CoP) Collectivity (2021) CC Open external link (163) Add to my MEDBOX The Community Health Community of Practice (CH CoP) builds on the Institutionalisation Community Health Conference co-hosted by USAID and UNICEF in Johannesburg in March 2017. Conceived as an ‘open space’ in terms of both contribution and access to knowledge, it aims at gathering practitioners, policy makers, researchers, program implementers and other experts actively involved in the technical or policy development of community health programs in low- and middle-income countries. It offers a network to share your country experience with other countries facing similar challenges; access to global knowledge on community health and its institutionalisation; opportunities for learning, exchanging and debating; constant information on new theoretical, operational or empirical developments in this domain of knowledge. The CoP is facilitated by an international team based in Africa, Asia and Europe. The CH CoP is supported by UNICEF in collaboration with USAID. accessed 23.07.2021 Collectivity Platform has more group networks to join. The Platform is also available in French Tags: community health, network, internet platform, community health workers, health system strengthening, primary care, Source: https://www.thecollectivity.org/en/commu
	Community Health Worker Aim Tool Community Health Impact Coalition (2021) CC Open external link (145) Add to my MEDBOX Health systems the world over have embraced the value of community health workers (CHWs) in extending essential services to the community level, improving health equity and progressing toward universal health coverage. Governments now have an opportunity to institutionalize CHW programs and professionalize this essential cadre of the health workforce. What will it take to ensure CHW programs, at scale, can achieve their full potential? Fortunately, policymakers, funders, NGOs, and other partners seeking to design, revamp, or strengthen CHW programs have a suite of tools at their disposal. One of the longest-standing and most rigorously field-tested of these tools is the Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix (CHW AIM), an assessment tool which can be used to design, evaluate and strengthen CHW programs. You can find this assessment tool on this page here. The matrix is also downloaded on MEDBOX, but if you want, you can register for free and get the matrix. After that follow the points underneath. accessed 23.07.2021 also available in [Français] [Español Tags: community health workers, CHW training program, CHW, evaluation programms, health equity, universal health coverage, internet platform, Source: https://chwimpact.org/chw-aim
	PACK Brasil Adulto COVID-19 (Florianópolis, Brasil) Março de 2021 - March 2021 PACK; Knowledge Translation Unit, Prefeitura Florianópolis, et al. (2021) CC View PDF(59) Download (37) Add to my MEDBOX Practical Approach to Care Kit Kit de Cuidados em Atenção Primária Guia de manejo clínico da COVID 19 para Atenção Primária O PACK Brasil é uma parceria entre a Unidade de Tradução do Conhecimento (KTU), Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Florianópolis/SC, BMJ e Fundação ProAR. A Fundação ProAR é a líder oficial das atividades do PACK no Brasil. Mais informações sobre a ProAR podem ser encontradas em: www.fundacaoproar.org.br O PACK foi adaptado, traduzido, implementado e avaliado em serviços de atenção primária brasileiros entre 2015 e 2017. Um ensaio clínico randomizado concluiu que o PACK qualificou o atendimento clínico de pacientes adultos com doenças respiratórias crônicas na atenção primária e apoiou o compartilhamento do cuidado entre médicos e enfermeiros. Desde então, foi revisado anualmente, estando alinhado com as políticas públicas locais. Em 2021, foi desenvolvido conteúdos adicionais sobre o manejo da COVID-19 Tags: primary health care, COVID-19, Brazil, caregivers, clinical care, Community Health Worker (CHW), Source: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/downl
	A Guide For Patients, Family Members And Community Caregivers - Caregiver Booklet World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(104) Download (94) Add to my MEDBOX Accessed 21 July 2021:The Caregiver Booklet is designed to help patients,family members, and community caregivers in the home-based care of serious long term illness. Home care is best for many people with long term illnesses,including those who are close to the end of life. All patients being cared for at home should be first assessed and treated by a health worker, who will help caregivers provide high quality home care and ensure that medicines are taken correctly. This booklet explains how to: 1. Deal with specific symptoms. 2. Provide care for terminal and bedridden patients at home. 3. Decide when to seek help from a health facility Tags: caregivers, community, community care, community health workers, patient care, family, home care, healthcare, ARV, antiretrovirals, TB, palliative care, Source: https://www.who.int/hiv/pub/imai/en/imai
	CHW Central Resources CHW Central (2021) CC Open external link (130) Add to my MEDBOX Accessed 15 July 2021 Your source for information about community health workers around the globe. Search Resources Learn More CHW Central believes that community health workers are key to achieving universal health coverage and reducing global health inequities. As the preeminent global resource on CHWs and CHW programs, CHW Central increases access to online information to improve the quality of CHW programs and services. We advocate for CHWs to be appropriately integrated into the global health workforce and represented and connected through strong networks and associations Tags: CHW, Community Health Worker (CHW), resource platform, Source: https://chwcentral.org/
	Information and Advice for the Home: Chronic conditions at home Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute Western Cape Department of Health (2021) CC View PDF(63) Download (42) Add to my MEDBOX Updated May 2021. Manual 3. The Practical Approach to Care Kit – PACK – is used by nurses, doctors and community health workers in their everyday work to care for patients at the clinic and in the community –PACK Adult, PACK Adolescent, PACK Child and PACK Community.PACK Home is designed for people seeking more information about how to care for their own health and the health of their family at home.Collect and read all the PACK Home volumes in English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu or Sesotho Download the different languages: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/pack/pack-home Tags: community health care, COVID-19, Training manual, Home based Care, infection control, Chronic Disease, Source: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/downl
	COVID-19 Guide for Community Health Workers Wood, D.; A. Dramowski and R. Turner (2021) C1 Open external link (484) Add to my MEDBOX Community health workers (CHWs) serve as a very important direct link between patients, communities and health services. As trusted on-the-ground support to community members, they therefore expand access to essential healthcare information as well as available treatment and prevention programmes. This course book provides appropriate, cost-effective, and sustainable targeted learning for the large numbers of emerging community health workers in South Africa Tags: COVID-19, Training manual, community health workers, protection, infection control, diagnosis and treatment, Source: https://bettercare.co.za/learn/covid-19-
	Manual for running a mobile clinic: Adapted for the North-West & South-West regions of Cameroon Health Cluster, Nutrition Cluster, OCHA (2021) CC View PDF(65) Download (25) Add to my MEDBOX In emergency or humanitarian settings, mobile clinics are used to bring essential lifesaving health care to communities affected by crises. Though there are standard emergency benefit packages for health services during emergencies, there are however no agreed or standard way of running mobile clinics in such settings. Drawing on the experiences of running mobile clinics in the NWSW and relevant literature, this manual provides a practical example of how to set up and run a mobile clinic in an African humanitarian setting in hard to reach communities with limited resources Tags: mobile clinic, humanitarian settings, Nutrition, community, Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in
	The Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) Nigeria Knowledge Translation Unit, BMJ and Health Resources International West Africa (HRIWA) (2021) CC Open external link (212) Add to my MEDBOX PACK Nigeria (Adult and Child) provides a single, integrated, comprehensive, evidence-informed clinical guide to support all cadres working in primary healthcare in Nigeria: i.e. junior community health extension workers (JCHEWs), community health extension workers (CHEWs), community health officers (CHOs), nurses, midwives and medical officers. Colour-coding is used to clearly delineate the scope of practice of these different cadres and clarify referral pathways. This integration promotes a team-based approach to a patient’s care and enables patients to receive consistent and standardized care from whichever cadre treats them. You can register for free and get the PACK Global Adult Guide for fre Tags: Health Workers, healthcare, primary care, PACK, community health workers, nurses, practical approach, low and middle-income countries, Source: https://knowledgetranslation.co.za/pack/