ArticleRevista de saude publica2020
Contribution of community health workers to primary health care performance in Brazil.
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- A realist synthesis of staff-based primary health care interventions addressing universal health coverage.Journal of global health · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of a Community Health Worker-Led Intervention on Physical Activity in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Health Care in the Brazilian Amazon.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Trial
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- Understanding the role and organization of health workers delivering non-communicable disease management in primary care in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Preventable hospitalizations due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Latin America (2015-2019): a multi-country descriptive analysis.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- Is Satisfaction with the Medication Provisions of the Senior Citizens Act and Frequency of Senior Identification Card Use Associated with Medication Compliance among Hypertensive Patients in the Philippines?Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- The transformative journey of community health workers in implementing a lifestyle intervention in Brazil: A qualitative study.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- Learning from the universal, proactive outreach of the Brazilian Community Health Worker model: impact of a Community Health and Wellbeing Worker initiative on vaccination, cancer screening and NHS health check uptake in a deprived community in the UK.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Healthcare Service Quality Evaluation in a Community-Oriented Primary Care Center, Italy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Assessing statins use in a real-world primary care digital strategy: a cross-sectional analysis of a population-wide digital health approach.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023 · on this mapArticle
- Current status of prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in primary care in China: a cross-sectional study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Article
- Pandemic-Related Impairment in the Monitoring of Patients With Hypertension and Diabetes and the Development of a Digital Solution for the Community Health Worker: Quasiexperimental and Implementation Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo associate the strength of community health workers interventions with primary health care strategies for women's and children's health, diabetes, and hypertension.
methodsThis is a cross-sectional study assessing 29,778 family health teams working in primary health care in Brazil in 2014. The association between community health workers activity levels and primary health care facilities was analyzed using multiple logistic regression.
resultsWe found higher levels of community health workers activities strongly associated with primary health care practices (OR = 6.88) for those activities targeting hypertension management, followed by children's health (OR = 6.56), and women's health (OR = 6.21).
conclusionsAt a time when Brazil discusses whether community health workers should or should not remain in the same scale-up and skill level as they currently are, our results reinforce the importance of these workers for the care model advocated by the Brazilian Unified Health System.
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