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Development of the health system in the Western Cape: experiences since 1994
(Health Systems Trust (HST), 2017)
Provincial governments in South Africa have a critical responsibility in terms of population health, yet few provincial-level analyses of health-system development have been undertaken. This chapter reports on research ...
The governance of national community health worker programmes in low- and middle-income countries: an empirically based framework of governance principles, purposes and tasks
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018)
BACKGROUND: National community health worker (CHW) programmes are increasingly regarded as an integral component of primary healthcare (PHC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At the interface of the formal health ...
The global pendulum swing towards community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of trends, geographical distribution and programmatic orientations, 2005 to 2014
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: There has been a substantial increase in publications and interest in community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) over the last years. This paper examines the growth, geographical ...
The roles, training and knowledge of community health workers about diabetes and hypertension in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
(AOSIS, 2018)
BACKGROUND: The current roles and capacity of community health workers (CHWs) in the
management and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) remain poorly understood.
Objectives: To assess CHWs’ current roles, training ...
Progress in the establishment of ward based outreach teams: experiences in the North West Province
(Health Systems Trust, 2013)
This chapter briefly describes the implementation of the Ward-based Outreach Teams (WBOTs) in the North West Province. The authors then highlight some of the findings of a rapid assessment of provincial and district ...
Whole-system change: case study of factors facilitating early implementation of a primary health care reform in a South African province
(BioMed Central, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Whole-system interventions are those that entail system wide changes in goals, service delivery arrangements and relationships between actors, requiring approaches to implementation that go beyond projects or ...
Using an equity-based framework for evaluating publicly funded health insurance programmes as an instrument of UHC in Chhattisgarh State, India
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Universal health coverage (UHC) has provided the impetus for the introduction of publicly funded health insurance (PFHI) schemes in the mixed health systems of India and many other low- and middle-income countries. There ...
Hospital utilization and out of pocket expenditure in public and private sectors under the universal government health insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh State, India: Lessons for universal health coverage
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Research on impact of publicly financed health insurance has paid relatively little attention
to the nature of healthcare provision the schemes engage. India's National Health Insurance
Scheme or RSBY was made universal ...
The roles of community health workers in management of non-communicable diseases in an urban township
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being recognised as a crucial part of the health workforce in South Africa and other parts of the world. CHWs have taken on a variety of roles, including community ...
Addressing the social determinants of health: A case study from the Mitanin (Community Health Worker) programme in India
(London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2014)
The Mitanin Programme, a government community health worker (CHW)
programme, was started in Chhattisgarh State of India in 2002. The CHWs
(Mitanins) have consistently adopted roles that ...