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For many years, Community Health Care Workers (CHWs) in Tanzania and Africa in general have played significant role in community health promotion.
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Many low-resource settings have a shortage of physicians and health workers. (1) In order to pro
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Background: Investing in the health workforce is key to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. However, achieving these Goals requires addressing a projected global
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Health Systems for Outcomes Publication | This report summarizes the findings of a qualitative study on health
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Recognizing the importance of the critical role of community health in disaster management, the Amref h
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This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of
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The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is a collaborative partnership which supports and promotes evidence-based health policy making in the Asia Pacific Region. Based in WHO’
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CONCLUSIONS: The roles performed by CHWs are broad, varied and essential for diabetes and hypertension management. However, basic knowledge about diabetes and hypertension remains poor while training is unstandardised and haphazard. These need to be improved if community-based NCD management is to b
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Diabetes is a significant public health issue that affects approximately one in 10 adults globally, with type 2 diabetes accounting for 90–95% of cases. This chronic condition causes considerable
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Shortages of healthcare workers is detrimental to the health of communities, especially children
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Access to health workers who are fit for purpose, motivated and protected is a fundamental force of hea
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A Review of Community Health Worker (CHW) knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to the sexual health
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South Africa has a long history of community health workers (CHWs). It has been a journey that has required balancing constrained resources and com
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases, jiy435, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy435.
Many outbreaks reported high proportions of infected HWs. Similar HW infection rates and exposure risk factors in
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There is a broad consensus nowadays that the Earth is warming up as a result of greenhouse gas emissions caused by anthropogenic activities. It is also clear that current trends in the fields of ene
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Zambia has about 1.2 physicians, nurses, and midwives per 1000 population while the minimum acceptable density threshold is 2.3 per 1000 population. The estimated shortage of doctors, nurses and mid
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23 December 2020 This document summarizes WHO recommendations for the rational use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in health care settings and temporary strategies during acute supply shortag
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Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines
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Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) is a gynaecological disease caused by Schistosoma haematobium, a parasitic worm that is acquired by skin contact with freshwater contaminated by schistosome cerceriae. Communities in which the infection is most endemic have limited access to clean water and healt
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