The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: a critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent and accountability

Does volunteer community health work empower women? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Women’s Development Army

(2019) Svea Closser et al.   HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

Perceived barriers to accessing Female Community Health Volunteers’ (FCHV) services among ethnic minority women in Nepal: A qualitative study

(2019) Sarita Panday et al.   PLoS One

Psychosocial distress among unpaid community health workers in rural Ethiopia: Comparing leaders in Ethiopia's Women's Development Army to their peers

(2019) Kenneth Maes et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Volunteers in Ethiopia’s women’s development army are more deprived and distressed than their neighbors: cross-sectional survey data from rural Ethiopia

(2018) Kenneth Maes et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

How do gender relations affect the working lives of close to community health service providers? Empirical research, a review and conceptual framework

(2018) Rosalind Steege et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

'We pledge to improve the health of our entire community': Improving health worker motivation and performance in Bihar, India through teamwork, recognition, and non-financial incentives

(2018) Carolyn Grant et al.   PLoS One

A new tool to measure approaches to supervision from the perspective of community health workers: a prospective, longitudinal, validation study in seven countries

(2018) Frédérique Vallières et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline

(2018) Giorgio Cometto et al.   Lancet Global Health

Improving health systems performance in low- and middle-income countries: a system dynamics model of the pay-for-performance initiative in Afghanistan

(2017) O Alonge et al.   HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

The silencing of political context in health research in Ethiopia: why it should be a concern

(2017) Marit Tolo Østebø et al.   HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

Understanding the performance of community health volunteers involved in the delivery of health programmes in underserved areas: a realist synthesis

(2017) Gaëlle Vareilles et al.   Implementation Science

Health surveillance assistants as intermediates between the community and health sector in Malawi: exploring how relationships influence performance

(2016) Maryse C. Kok et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review

(2016) Rosalind McCollum et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Limits and opportunities to community health worker empowerment: A multi-country comparative study

(2016) Sumit Kane et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Crowding out or no crowding out? A Self-Determination Theory approach to health worker motivation in performance-based financing

(2016) Julia Lohmann et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

‘Continuity of care’: a critical interpretive synthesis of how the concept was elaborated by a national research programme

(2016) Janet Heaton et al.   International Journal of Integrated Care

“Cultural brokerage” and beyond: piloting the role of an urban Aboriginal Mental Health Liaison Officer

(2015) Brian McKenna et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Health systems guidance appraisal—a critical interpretive synthesis

(2015) Denis E. Ako-Arrey et al.   Implementation Science

Utilization of community health workers for malaria treatment: results from a three-year panel study in the districts of Kaya and Zorgho, Burkina Faso

(2015) Thomas Druetz et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

Exploring the perceptions and experiences of community health workers using role identity theory

(2015) Langelihle Mlotshwa et al.   Global Health Action

Engaging community health workers in maternal and newborn care in eastern Uganda

(2015) Monica Okuga et al.   Global Health Action

Community Health Workers in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries: An Overview of Their History, Recent Evolution, and Current Effectiveness

(2014) Henry B. Perry et al.   Annual Review of Public Health

Addressing the social determinants of health: a case study from the Mitanin (community health worker) programme in India

(2014) S. Nandi et al.   HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

Which intervention design factors influence performance of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review

(2014) Maryse C Kok et al.   HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

Effectiveness of community health workers delivering preventive interventions for maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

(2013) Brynne Gilmore et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

‘Sometimes they fail to keep their faith in us’: community health worker perceptions of structural barriers to quality of care and community utilisation of services in Bangladesh

(2013) Chloe Puett et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

How Contexts and Issues Influence the Use of Policy-Relevant Research Syntheses: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis

(2013) KAELAN A. MOAT et al.   MILBANK QUARTERLY

The role of social geography on Lady Health Workers' mobility and effectiveness in Pakistan

(2013) Zubia Mumtaz et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers

(2013) Svea Closser et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Addressing maternal healthcare through demand side financial incentives: experience of Janani Suraksha Yojana program in India

(2012) Saji S Gopalan et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Winning Policy Change to Promote Community Health Workers: Lessons From Massachusetts in The Health Reform Era

(2011) Terry Mason et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

The female community health volunteer programme in Nepal: Decision makers’ perceptions of volunteerism, payment and other incentives

(2010) Claire Glenton et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Producing effective knowledge agents in a pluralistic environment: What future for community health workers?

(2008) H. Standing et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE