community health discipline

Close-to-community (CTC) providers have been identified as a key cadre to progress universal health coverage and address… Expand

INTRODUCTION Elevated blood pressure greatly contributes to cardiovascular deaths in low-income and middle-income countries. We… Expand

Background: Primary health care (PHC) systems require motivated and well-trained frontline providers, but are increasingly… Expand

Objectives To determine whether a community health worker (CHW) intervention improved outcomes in a low-income population with… Expand

Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) program started in 1988. In the early years of program initiation, FCHVs were… Expand

Maternal undernutrition contributes to 800,000 neonatal deaths annually through small for gestational age births; stunting… Expand

CONTEXT The ability to identify and quantify brain β-amyloid could increase the accuracy of a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer… Expand

There is renewed interest in the potential contribution of community health workers to child survival. Community health workers… Expand

Health promotion programs often lack a clearly specified theoretical foundation or are based on narrowly conceived conceptual… Expand

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness, dynamics, and consequences of a health education intervention… Expand