Download or read book Optimizing community health worker programmes for HIV services written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide identifies interventions in prevention, testing, treatment, care, clinical management and support services for the HIV and related co-morbidities for which there is evidence that community health workers can provide safe and effective care in HIV. It also provides policy recommendations on how to design, implement and optimize CHW programmes as part of broader health workforce and service delivery strategies that are acceptable to communities and can be sustained. Finally, it outlines key knowledge gaps that should be addressed through further research.
Download or read book Health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes for HIV TB and malaria services written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first WHO evidence guide pulls together the existing guidelines and bodies of evidence, combined with recommendations from WHO experts, to provide a first-ever evidence base for national governments and their partners to design, implement and sustain effective and cost-effective HIV, TB and malaria community health worker programmes.
Download or read book Foundations for Community Health Workers written by Tim Berthold and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations for Community Health Workers Foundations for Community Health Workers is a training resource for client- and community-centered public health practitioners, with an emphasis on promoting health equality. Based on City College of San Francisco's CHW Certificate Program, it begins with an overview of the historic and political context informing the practice of community health workers. The second section of the book addresses core competencies for working with individual clients, such as behavior change counseling and case management, and practitioner development topics such as ethics, stress management, and conflict resolution. The book's final section covers skills for practice at the group and community levels, such as conducting health outreach and facilitating community organizing and advocacy. Praise for Foundations for Community Health Workers "This book is the first of its kind: a manual of core competencies and curricula for training community health workers. Covering topics from health inequalities to patient-centered counseling, this book is a tremendous resource for both scholars of and practitioners in the field of community-based medicine. It also marks a great step forward in any setting, rich or poor, in which it is imperative to reduce health disparities and promote genuine health and well-being." Paul E. Farmer, MD., PhD, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; founding director, Partners In Health. "This book is based on the contributions of experienced CHWs and advocates of the field. I am confident that it will serve as an inspiration for many CHW training programs." Yvonne Lacey, CHW, former coordinator, Black Infant Health Program, City of Berkeley Health Department; former chair, CHW Special Interest Group for the APHA. "This book masterfully integrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a CHW through storytelling and real life case examples. This simple and elegant approach brings to life the intricacies of the work and espouses the spirit of the role that is so critical to eliminating disparities a true model educational approach to emulate." Gayle Tang, MSN, RN., director, National Linguistic and Cultural Programs, National Diversity, Kaiser Permanente "Finally, we have a competency-based textbook for community health worker education well informed by seasoned CHWs themselves as well as expert contributors." Donald E. Proulx, CHW National Education Collaborative, University of Arizona
Download or read book Consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services 2019 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis Module 6 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing comorbidities and risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) is a crucial component of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s End TB Strategy. This WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities aims to support countries in scaling up people-centred care, based on the latest WHO recommendations on TB and key comorbidities, and drawing upon additional evidence, best practices and inputs from various experts and stakeholders obtained during WHO processes. It is intended for use by people working in ministries of health, particularly TB programmes and the relevant departments or programmes responsible for comorbidities and health-related risk factors for TB such as HIV, diabetes, undernutrition, substance use, and tobacco use, as well as programmes addressing mental health and lung health. This operational handbook is a living document and will include a separate section for each of the key TB comorbidities or health-related risk factors. The second edition includes guidance for HIV-associated TB and on mental health conditions, which are two conditions strongly associated with TB and which result in higher mortality, poorer TB treatment outcomes and negatively impact health-related quality of life. The operational handbook aims to facilitate early detection, proper assessment and adequate management of people affected by TB and comorbidities. Full implementation of this guidance is expected to have a significant impact on TB treatment outcomes and health-related quality of life for people affected by TB.
Download or read book Tool to assess impact of human resources for health investments on HIV TB and malaria services and health outcomes written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WHO global strategy on human resources for health encourages development partners and global health initiatives to leverage their support to health systems in countries to strengthen sustainably the health workforce. This impact assessment tool stems directly from an integrated conceptual model and it integrates relevant literature and novel empirical results that indicate positive associations among HRH investments, four key treatment service indicators, and health impact on the burden of HIV, TB and malaria. The tool can demonstrate the feasibility of estimating improvements in service treatment and lives saved for HIV, TB and malaria deriving from investments in HRH by assessing and quantifying the health impact of HRH investments made in the context of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria programmes through their modelled effect on health service coverage of these three diseases, and providing aggregate indicative estimates of the range of health workers required to attain high coverage of selected health services. The tool is targeted at planners and managers (at national or international level) of large scale disease specific programmes that include a substantial health workforce component. The goal is to enable better understanding of the potential return on HRH investments as a policy and programme planning function of grant-making or other health financing activities.
Download or read book State of the world s nursing 2020 written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HIV AIDS in South Africa written by S. S. Abdool Karim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the book provides up-to-date information on new drugs, new proven HIV prevention interventions, a new chapter on positive prevention, and current HIV epidemiology. This definitive text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic science to medicine, sociology, economics and politics. It has been written by a highly respected team of South African HIV/AIDS experts and provides a thoroughly researched account of the epidemic in the region.
Download or read book Consolidated HIV strategic information guidelines written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Global Quality Chasm written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.
Download or read book What do we know about community health workers A systematic review of existing reviews written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Setting Up Community Health Programmes written by Ted Lankester and published by MacMillan Education, Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into four parts, this book covers the basic principles of community based health care, starting a programme, setting up specific programmes and managing programmes. It is designed for both rural and urban locations; and contains over 250 diagrams, illustrations and tables.
Download or read book Achieving Health for All written by David Bishai and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did seven low- and middle-income countries, inspired by the landmark Alma-Ata Declaration, dramatically improve citizen health by focusing on primary health care? The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 marked a potential turning point in global health, signaling a commitment to primary health care that could have improved the safety of air, food, water, roads, homes, and workplaces in all 180 countries that signed it. Unfortunately, progress in many countries stalled in the 1980s. The declaration was, however, embraced by a number of countries, where its implementation led to substantial improvement in citizen health. Achieving Health for All reveals how, inspired by Alma-Ata, the governments of seven countries executed comprehensive primary health care systems, deploying new cadres of community-based health workers to bring relevant services to ordinary households. Drawing on a set of narrative case studies from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam,the book explains how a primary health care focus succeeded in improving population health. The book also conclusively demonstrates that comprehensive, multisector, community-controlled, and population-level primary health care is a viable strategy that, against the odds, has led to sustainable, scalable good health at lower cost. Bringing together a group of experts to analyze the forty-year legacy of the Alma-Ata Declaration, Achieving Health for All is a fascinating look at the work needed to transform nations from places that make people sick to places where they stay healthy. An inspiring array of lessons learned along the way shows how readers can make policies that support the health of all people. Contributors: Onaopemipo Abiodun, Vinya Ariyaratne, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Kedar Prasad Baral, Ayaga A. Bawah, Pedro Más Bermejo, Fred N. Binka, David Bishai, Carolina Cardona, Dennis Carlson, Chala Tesfaye Chekagn, Hoang Khanh Chi, Svea Closser, Luc Barrière Constantin, Zufan Abera Damtew, Marlou de Rouw, Nadia Diamond-Smith, Philip Forth, Mignote Solomon Haile, Nguyen Thanh Huong, Taufique Joarder, Alice Kuan, Seblewengel Lemma, Sasmira Matta, Ahmed Moen, Rituu B. Nanda, Frank K. Nyonator, Ferdous Arfina Osman, Claudia Pereira, Henry B. Perry, James F. Phillips, Meike Schleiff, Melissa Sherry, Rita Thapa, Kebede Worku
Download or read book Primary health care and HIV convergent actions Policy considerations for decision makers written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2030 health-related Sustainable Development Goals call on countries to end AIDS as a public health threat and also to achieve universal health coverage. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes primary health care (PHC) as the key mechanism for achieving universal health coverage, and the PHC approach is also essential for ending AIDS and reaching other Sustainable Development Goal targets. This publication helps decision-makers to consider and optimize the synergies between existing and future assets and investments intended for both PHC and disease-specific responses, including HIV.
Download or read book The Effectiveness of a Volunteer Community Health Worker Program to Support an Antiretroviral Treatment Program for AIDS Patients in Western Uganda written by Arif A. Alibhai and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: A research team from the University of Alberta and Uganda established a community based antiretroviral treatment (ART) program for AIDS patients in rural western Uganda. This program engaged laypersons as volunteer community health workers (CHWs) to support ART activities. Research questions: This study examined whether CHWs could effectively perform a range of activities to support ART, how the elements of a volunteer CHW program functioned, and what patients, health workers and CHWs felt were the benefits to patients of using volunteer CHWs. Methods: This was a mixed methods study. Between 2006 and 2008, cross-sectional and longitudinal data were obtained from CHW surveys and focus groups, health worker focus groups, patient interviews, clinic charts, and program documents. Results: CHWs were able to effectively deliver drugs, monitor adherence to ART, and promote behaviour change and condoms for the prevention of HIV transmission. However, findings pointed to concerns regarding the ability of CHWs to identify side-effects of ART. After two years, 65.7% of patients achieved virologic suppression and 16.9% died. In multivariate analyses, having to travel one or more hours to the patient, compared to less than one hour, was the only statistically significant CHW characteristic that predicted virologic failure (adjusted OR = 0.29, p = 0.002) and mortality (adjusted HR = 4.52, p = 0.026). Patients and health workers attributed positive ART outcomes to the role of the CHWs in reducing the transport burden and wait times for patients. Patients valued the emotional and compassionate support to patients. The biggest challenges for CHWs were distances they had to travel, patient stigma, patient social issues, and community misperceptions about the CHW role. Some issues resolved with time and experience. Despite these challenges, the attrition rate for CHWs was only 2.4% over the two year period. CHWs felt highly motivated by the recognition and appreciation of the community and the opportunity to help reduce mortality within their community. Conclusions: The CHW program contributed to positive treatment outcomes for rural AIDS patients and provides recommendations for replication of this program to other areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Guidance on engagement of communities and civil society to end tuberculosis written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of community and civil society engagement to end TB has been highlighted in various strategies of global commitments. The WHO End TB Strategy, aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizes the role of communities and civil society in ending the TB epidemic by 2030. Furthermore, the political declaration of the 2081 United Nations High-level Meeting on TB Highlights the need to develop integrated, people-centred, community-based, gender-responsive health services. This guidance was developed in collaboration with civil society and other partners, in order to further strengthen engagement and leverage capacities of communities' and civil society in line with the End TB Strategy. The guidance emphasizes the complementarity of health systems and community systems; the key roles that people affected by TB should play in planning, decision-making, implementation and monitoring; and the role of ministries of health and their NTPs. It underlines the importance of fair, sustainable financing and of policy environment for community and civil society engagement. Its purpose is to provide guidance for communities and for all stakeholders in the health system for working together to end TB and strengthening people-centred care. Stakeholders in national TB responses include ministries of health, other government ministries, the private sector, civil society and affected communities, academic and research institutions, and technical and funding partners.
Download or read book Guidance for national strategic planning NSP health sector response to HIV viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
