Community Health Workers
A short list of references is provided here. This is by no means an exhaustive list of documents on CHW but is intended to give some basic background reading. The bibliographies from a key article on CHWs, which provide a great deal of background, evaluation, and studies, is also provided.
Berman, Peter, Gwatkin, Davidson, and Burger, Susan, “Community-Based Health Workers: Head Start or False Start Towards Health for All? Social Science and Medicine 25(5), 1987
Bhattacharyya, Karabi, Winch, Peter, LeBan, Karen, and Thien, Marie, Community Health Worker Incentives and Disincentives: How They Affect Motivation, Retention, and Sustainability, Published by the Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival Project (BASICS II) for USAID, October 2001
Frankel, S., The Community Health Worker: Effective Programs for Developing Countries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Haines, Andy, Sanders, David, Lehmann, Uta, Rowe, Alexander, Lawn, Joy, Jan, Steve Walker, Damian, and Bhutta, Zulfiqar “Achieving Child Survival Goals: Potential Contribution of Community Health Workers,” Lancet, published online March 6, 2007
Lehmann, Uta, Friedman, Irwin, and Sanders, David “Review of the Utilization and Effectiveness of Community-based Health Workers in Africa,” Joint Learning Initiative Working Paper 4-1, February 2004
Lehmann, Uta and Sanders, David, “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 the School of Public Health University of the Western Cape, Evidence and Information for Policy, Department of Human Resources for Health, WHO, Geneva, January 2007
Swider, S.M., “Outcome Effectiveness of Community Health Workers: An Integrative Literature Review.” Public Health Nursing 19: 1, 2002.
WHO, Strengthening the Performance of Community Health Workers (Geneva: World Health Organization, 1990).
WHO, Strengthening the Performance of Community Health Workers in Primary Health Care. Report of a WHO Study Group, WHO Technical Report Series, No. 780, 1987
WHO, Strengthening the Performance of Community Health Workers in Primary Health Care, Report of a WHO Study Group, WHO Technical Report Series No 780, 1989.
Bibliography from:
Lehmann, Uta and Sanders, David, “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”
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