Transcription of What do we know about them? - World Health Organization
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community Health workers: what do we know about them ? The state of the evidence on programmes, activities, costs and impact on Health outcomes of using community Health workers A report by Uta Lehmann and David Sanders School of Public Health University of the Western Cape Evidence and Information for Policy, Department of Human Resources for Health Geneva, January 2007 community Health workers: what do we know about them ? Page iii Content Executive summary .. v Abbreviations .. vii vii Introduction ..1 Methodology ..2 The state of the evidence ..2 Defining community Health The history of community Health worker programmes ..5 Profiling community Health workers ..6 Who are they? ..6 Roles and activities ..8 Performance ..13 Health worker performance ..14 Use ..14 Impact effectiveness ..15 Cost-effectiveness of CHW programmes ..16 Managing CHW programmes ..17 Recruitment and selection ..18 Initial and continuing training.
Community health workers: what do we know about them? • Page v Executive summary The use of community health workers has been identified as one strategy to address the growing shortage
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