Who is a community health worker? – a systematic review of definitions

Establishing a Patient Navigator Program to Reduce Cancer Disparities in the American Indian Communities of Western South Dakota: Initial Observations and Results

(2017) Daniel G. Petereit et al.   Cancer Control

Innovation in health service delivery: integrating community health assistants into the health system at district level in Zambia

(2015) Joseph Mumba Zulu et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Impact of patient and navigator race and language concordance on care after cancer screening abnormalities

(2015) Marjory Charlot et al.   CANCER

Skill mix, roles and remuneration in the primary care workforce: Who are the healthcare professionals in the primary care teams across the world?

(2015) Tobias Freund et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES

Apoyo con Cariño: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Patient Navigator Intervention to Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Latinos With Serious Illness

(2015) Stacy M. Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT

Community Health Workers as a Component of the Health Care Team

(2015) Sheri L. Johnson et al.   PEDIATRIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

The Happy Older Latinos are Active (HOLA) health promotion and prevention study: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

(2015) Daniel E. Jimenez et al.   Trials

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the peer-delivered Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression in Pakistan and India: the SHARE study protocol for randomised controlled trials

(2015) Siham Sikander et al.   Trials

Needs assessment for home-based care and the strengthening of social support networks: the role of community care workers in rural South Africa

(2015) Mosa Moshabela et al.   Global Health Action

Mitigation of non-communicable diseases in developing countries with community health workers

(2015) Shiva Raj Mishra et al.   Globalization and Health

Pollution Prevention through Peer Education: A Community Health Worker and Small and Home-Based Business Initiative on the Arizona-Sonora Border

(2015) Denise Ramírez et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

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

Good on paper: the gap between programme theory and real-world context in Pakistan's Community Midwife programme

(2014) Z Mumtaz et al.   BJOG-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

The Tanzania Connect Project: a cluster-randomized trial of the child survival impact of adding paid community health workers to an existing facility-focused health system

(2014) Kate Ramsey et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Improving healthcare empowerment through breast cancer patient navigation: a mixed methods evaluation in a safety-net setting

(2014) Guzyal Gabitova et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Effectiveness of a group diabetes education programme in under-served communities in South Africa: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

(2014) R. J. Mash et al.   DIABETIC MEDICINE

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

Health promotion strategies for families with adolescents orphaned by HIV and AIDS

(2014) M.D. Peu   INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW

Smartphone-Enabled Health Coach Intervention for People With Diabetes From a Modest Socioeconomic Strata Community: Single-Arm Longitudinal Feasibility Study

(2014) Noah Wayne et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Knowledge and Skills Retention Among Frontline Health Workers: Community Maternal and Newborn Health Training in Rural Ethiopia

(2014) Abebe Gebremariam Gobezayehu et al.   JOURNAL OF MIDWIFERY & WOMENS HEALTH

Evaluation of Breast Cancer Knowledge Among Health Promoters in Mexico Before and After Focused Training

(2014) N. L. Keating et al.   ONCOLOGIST

Comparing the effect of a decision aid plus patient navigation with usual care on colorectal cancer screening completion in vulnerable populations: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

(2014) Alison T Brenner et al.   Trials

Challenges in delivery of skilled maternal care – experiences of community midwives in Pakistan

(2014) Mariyam Sarfraz et al.   BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Perceptions of Community Health Workers (CHWs/PS) in the U.S.-Mexico Border HEART CVD Study

(2014) Hector Balcazar et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Contribution of the Community Health Volunteers in the Control of Buruli Ulcer in Bénin

(2014) Yves Thierry Barogui et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Community health workers of Afghanistan: a qualitative study of a national program

(2014) Said Najafizada et al.   Conflict and Health

The Role of Lay Health Workers in Pediatric Chronic Disease: A Systematic Review

(2013) Jean L. Raphael et al.   Academic Pediatrics

Impact of Peer Health Coaching on Glycemic Control in Low-Income Patients With Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(2013) D. H. Thom et al.   ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE

Burden experienced by community health volunteers in Taiwan: a survey

(2013) Yueh-Mei Gau et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Evaluation of a volunteer community-based health worker program for providing contraceptive services in Madagascar

(2013) Maria F. Gallo et al.   CONTRACEPTION

A Pilot Test of a Church-Based Intervention to Promote Multiple Cancer-Screening Behaviors among Latinas

(2013) Jennifer D. Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF CANCER EDUCATION

1 million community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015

(2013) Prabhjot Singh et al.   LANCET

IDEAS for a healthy baby - reducing disparities in use of publicly reported quality data: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

(2013) Sarah L Goff et al.   Trials

Barriers and Facilitators for Promotoras’ Success in Delivering Pesticide Safety Education to Latino Farmworker Families: La Familia Sana

(2013) Grisel Trejo et al.   Journal of Agromedicine

Community Health Workers Providing Government Community Case Management for Child Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa: Who Are They and What Are They Expected to Do?

(2012) Asha George et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Navigating the cancer journey: A review of patient navigator programs for Indigenous cancer patients

(2012) Lisa J. WHOP et al.   Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology

What do peer support workers do? A job description

(2012) Nora Jacobson et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Design of a trial to evaluate the impact of clinical pharmacists and community health promoters working with African-Americans and Latinos with Diabetes

(2012) Ben S Gerber et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

The economic impact of a patient navigator program to increase screening colonoscopy

(2012) Elena B. Elkin et al.   CANCER

Reaching Latinas with Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Guía de Capacitación para Promotoras de Salud: Health Education for Social Change

(2012) Zobeida E. Bonilla et al.   JOURNAL OF MIDWIFERY & WOMENS HEALTH

A Cancer Screening Intervention for Underserved Latina Women by Lay Educators

(2012) Linda K. Larkey et al.   JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH

Strengthening maternal and newborn health in rural Ethiopia: Early results from frontline health worker community maternal and newborn health training

(2012) Michelle Dynes et al.   MIDWIFERY

Patient Navigation for Underserved Patients Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

(2012) A. Raj et al.   ONCOLOGIST

The outreach worker role in an anticipatory care programme: A valuable resource for linking and supporting

(2012) H. Carver et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH

An Innovative Method to Involve Community Health Workers as Partners in Evaluation Research

(2011) Nadine Peacock et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Provision of injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia through community-based reproductive health agents

(2011) Ndola Prata et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Measuring the impact and potential of patient navigation

(2011) Angelina Esparza et al.   CANCER

Effect of knowledge of community health workers on essential newborn health care: a study from rural India

(2011) P. K. Agrawal et al.   HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

Effectiveness of diabetes and hypertension management by rural primary health-care workers (Behvarz workers) in Iran: a nationally representative observational study

(2011) Farshad Farzadfar et al.   LANCET

Psychometric development and reliability analysis of a patient satisfaction with interpersonal relationship with navigator measure: a multi-site patient navigation research program study

(2011) Pascal Jean-Pierre et al.   PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY

Community interventions to reduce child mortality in Dhanusha, Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

(2011) Bhim P Shrestha et al.   Trials

Trends in Colorectal Cancer Test Use in the Medicare Population, 1998–2005

(2009) Anna P. Schenck et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

60 million non-facility births: Who can deliver in community settings to reduce intrapartum-related deaths?

(2009) Gary L. Darmstadt et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS

Characteristics of the original patient navigation programs to reduce disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer

(2008) Roberto B. Vargas et al.   CANCER

Lay food and health worker involvement in community nutrition and dietetics in England: definitions from the field

(2008) L. A. Kennedy et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS