ArticleBMJ open2021
Exploring digital health interventions to support community health workers in low-and-middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review protocol.
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- PROTOCOL: Artificial Intelligence and Other Digital Tools Used by, and for Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to Improve Outcomes and Increase Effectiveness: An Evidence and Gap Map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Evaluating community-based digital health interventions to improve COVID-19 outcomes in rural Indonesia: a quasi-experimental study.BMJ health & care informatics · 2025Article
- Strengthening Outbreak Detection in Africa to Achieve the 7-1-7 Global Framework: Challenges and Opportunities.Public health reviews · 2025Review
- Indications of digital literacy during Latino-focused, community-based COVID-19 testing implementation.JAMIA open · 2024Article
- Community health worker perspectives on advocacy: design-based research to develop a digital advocacy training course.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Utilization of telehealth to manage the Covid-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionCOVID-19 has significantly affected community health workers' (CHWs) performance as they are expected to perform pandemic-related tasks along with routine essential healthcare services. A plausible way to optimise CHWs' functioning during this pandemic is to couple the efforts of CHWs with digital tools. So far, no systematic evidence is available on the use of digital health interventions to support CHWs in low-middle-income countries (LMICs) amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The article describes a protocol for a scoping review of primary research studies that aim to map evidence on the use of unique digital health interventions to support CHWs during COVID-19 in LMICs. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Our methodology has been adapted from scoping review guidelines provided by Arksey and O'Malley, Levac ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Formal ethical approval is not required, as primary data will not be collected in this study. The results from our scoping review will provide valuable insight into the use of digital health interventions to optimise CHWs' functioning and will reveal current knowledge gaps in research. The results will be disseminated through journal publications and conference presentations.
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