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SYNCH offers assistance to those who are interested in becoming a community health worker and to those currently working in the field.
Delivery of malaria treatment by a community health worker in Djénébougou, Mali. A community health worker (CHW) is a member of a community who provides basic health and medical care within their community, and is capable of providing preventive, promotional and rehabilitation care to that community, typically without formal education equal to that of a nurse, CHO, or doctor.
Barangay health workers are a type of community health workers and act as health advocates and educators within their communities. [5] They live in the communities they serve and receive about five weeks of training, ranging from administering immunizations, weighing children, birthing services, etc.
Pacific Open Learning Health Net (POLHN / ˈ p ɒ l h ən /) is a non-profit established in 2003, focused on distance education for health professionals working in the Pacific. . Since 2004, it has provided free online courses for continuing professional development in a wide range of health and science related discip
CMMB focuses on maternal and child health including a four-year program for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), [63] increasing uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision, and HIV counseling and testing (HCT), [10] implementing community-based HIV prevention programs and preventing and treating malaria, TB, and leprosy.
The main key to this success and to the PIH model of care pioneered in Haiti has been training and hiring thousands of accompagnateurs (community health workers). The PIH model of accompagnateur care is outlined in the 5-SPICE framework, a scholarly article detailing the tenets of a successful community health worker program. [30]
In developing countries, many national human resources for health strategic plans and international development initiatives are focusing on scaling up training of allied health professions, such as HIV/AIDS counsellors, clinical officers and community health workers, in providing essential preventive and treatment services in ambulatory and ...
Community health volunteers are members of a local community who have experience and training on the health problems prevalent in their community and care services available, in order to identify and link those in need with local providers. Community health volunteers may be referred to by different titles depending on their local health system ...