HRH Global Resource Center - Community Interventions

Para Professionals in the Social Service Workforce: Guiding Principles, Functions and Competencies

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:40:45 +0000

The group developed a set of guiding principles for working with para professionals to form a base from which to develop programs and activities related to how these workers can be trained, developed, deployed and supported. The group also decided that an important contribution to this area of work would be the development of a competency framework for para professionals that would outline the functions and competencies of para professionals and could be used to provide program guidance, accountability and ultimately inform both training and supervision. [from resource]

Engaging Communities for Increasing Immunisation Coverage: What Do We Know?

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:05:51 +0000

The scoping paper focuses primarily on interventions and policies that lie at the intersection of immunisation and community engagement approaches. [from abstract]

Utilization of Community-Based Health Information Systems in Decision Making and Health Action in Nyalenda, Kisumu County, Kenya

Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:40:28 +0000

The purpose of this paper is to explore how data collected at the community level is utilised by various stakeholders within the community in order to produce actionable information for decision making. [from abstract]

Effectiveness of Community-Based Health Services by Nurse Practitioners: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:48:01 +0000

As non-communicable diseases become a major health burden requiring long-term healthcare in community settings, this systematic review aims to assess the equivalence of NP services to standard care provided by MDs, and to determine whether their practice is an effective alternative to that of MDs in community settings. [from abstract]

Use of Mobile Phone Consultations During Home Visits by Community Health Workers for Maternal and Newborn Care: Community Experiences from Masindi and Kiryandongo Districts, Uganda

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:22:01 +0000

Home visits by Community Health Workers [In Uganda Community Health Workers are given the collective term of Village Health Teams (VHIs). This is recommended to improve maternal and newborn care. We investigated perceived maternal and newborn benefits of home visits made by VHTs, combined with mobile phone consultations with professional health workers for advice. [adapted from abstract]

Qualitative Assessment of Rural Health Workers’ Management of Malaria in Sick Children

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:01:40 +0000

This study explores the perceptions of health managers and health care providers on the case management of uncomplicated malaria among under-fives in selected primary health care (PHC) facilities of two Local Government Areas (LGAs), Katcha and Gbako, as part of baselines for capacity-building interventions planned in Niger State, Nigeria. [from abstract]

Identifying Approaches and Tools for Evaluating Community-Based Medical Education Programmes in Africa

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:28:38 +0000

This article outlines the process of identifying tools that, with modification, could assist in the evaluation of Community-Based Education programmes in participating Medical Education Partnership Initiative schools, funded by PEPFAR.

Motivation and Satisfaction Among Community Health Workers in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: Nuanced Needs and Varied Ambitions

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:45:37 +0000

In 2012, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), Tanzania, approved national guidelines and training materials for community health workers (CHWs) in integrated maternal, newborn and child health (Integrated MNCH), with CHWs trained and deployed across five districts of Morogoro Region soon after. To inform future scale up, this study assessed motivation and satisfaction among these CHWs. [from abstract]

State of the Social Service Workforce 2015 Report: A Multi-Country Review

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:47:53 +0000

This report sheds light on key social service workforce data and trends in 2014, showcases innovative and effective workforce strengthening initiatives, and highlights the impact of a lack of data in this fairly new area
of focus. This first annual report is envisioned as a first step among many other global, regional, and national
efforts to better describe, depict, and analyze efforts to strengthen the social service workforce. [from executive summary]

Shifting Management of a Community Volunteer System for Improved Child Health Outcomes: Results from an Operations Research Study in Burundi

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:52:54 +0000

Community-based strategies that foster frequent contact between caregivers of children under five and provide credible sources of health information are essential to improve child survival. Care Groups are a community-based implementation strategy for the delivery of social and behavior change interventions. This study assessed if supervision of Care Group activities by Ministry of Health (MOH) personnel could achieve the same child health outcomes as supervision provided by specialized non-governmental organization (NGO) staff. [from abstract]