ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Evolution of community health workers: the fourth stage.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Family caregiving as a pathway to strengthen health outcomes in India.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Inducting family physicians to offer primary care in remote areas of India is neither feasible nor necessary.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2023Article
- By Residents, for Residents: Evaluating a Community-Led Peer Health Education Program in Australian Social Housing Communities.International journal of integrated careArticle
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11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Introduction: Comprehensive primary care is a key component of any good health system. Designers need to incorporate the Methods: We suggest that there are potentially four stages in the evolution of the CHW - the health messenger, the physician extender, the focused provider, and the comprehensive provider. In the latter two stages, the physician becomes much more of an adjunct figure, unlike in the first two, where the physician is at the center. We examine the comprehensive provider stage ( Results: Our analysis suggests that the global Alaskan and Iranian, and the Indian Dvara Health and Swasthya Swaraj programs incorporate more than 80% (> 14) of the 17 characteristics. Of these 17, there are 6 foundational characteristics that are present in all the six stage 4 programs discussed in this study. These include (i)
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