ReviewBMJ global health2020
Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response.
Review in BMJ global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04878328 (Leveraging Community Health Workers to Improve COVID-19 Testing and Mitigation Among Criminal Justice-involved Individuals Accessing a Corrections-focused Community-based Organization), which is not on this map. Cited by 145 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Leveraging Community Health Workers to Improve COVID-19 Testing and Mitigation Among Criminal Justice-involved Individuals Accessing a Corrections-focused Community-based Organization
Who cites it
145 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Barriers to healthcare access for irregular immigrants after their arrival in Spain: a systematic review.European journal of public health · 2025Pooled it
- Community health workers' dissemination of COVID-19 information and services in the early pandemic response: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- Stock-outs of essential medicines among community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic literature review of the extent, reasons, and consequences.Human resources for health · 2022Pooled it
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- A cluster randomized trial of delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy at the community level in Malawi.Malaria journal · 2022Trial
- Community Health Workers as a Strategy to Tackle Psychosocial Suffering Due to Physical Distancing: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
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- Perspectives of senior health managers on COVID-19 response and challenges, lessons learned and opportunities against future outbreaks in Gauteng province, South Africa.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Evaluating health service delivery frameworks for assessing community health worker performance in LMICs: a mixed-method systematic review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of emergency surgeries performed by nurse-surgeons and other non-physician providers: a systematic review and proportional meta-analysis.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- From ambivalence to agency: parents' conceptions of a theory-based behavioural intervention to prevent dental caries in their preschool children - a qualitative study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
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- Family health coverage and care reorganization during the COVID-19 pandemic.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2026Article
- Recent epidemiological and management approaches for cholera in India.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2026Review
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- Positive psychological changes and associated factors among community health workers post-COVID-19 in China: a mixed-methods study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Quantifying the attributable burden of economic inequality on under-five mortality across ten African countries: a WHO HEAT-based analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A qualitative descriptive study of stigma and psychological burden among Japanese healthcare workers following COVID-19 infection or close contact.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Optimizing the role and functions of CHWs in service of a people-centred community health system in sub-Saharan Africa. A realist synthesis.SSM - health systems · 2025Review
- Heart Failure Readmission Prevention Strategies-A Comparative Review of Medications, Devices, and Other Interventions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
85 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
COVID-19 disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable. Community health workers are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic, especially in countries with less resilient health systems. Drawing from practitioner expertise across four WHO regions, this article outlines the targeted actions needed at different stages of the pandemic to achieve the following goals: (1) PROTECT healthcare workers, (2) INTERRUPT the virus, (3) MAINTAIN existing healthcare services while surging their capacity, and (4) SHIELD the most vulnerable from socioeconomic shocks. While decisive action must be taken now to blunt the impact of the pandemic in countries likely to be hit the hardest, many of the investments in the supply chain, compensation, dedicated supervision, continuous training and performance management necessary for rapid community response in a pandemic are the same as those required to achieve universal healthcare and prevent the next epidemic.
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