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Leadership and governance of community health worker programmes at scale: a cross case analysis of provincial implementation in South Africa
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: National community health worker (CHW) programmes are returning to favour as an integral part of
primary health care systems, often on the back of pre-existing community based initiatives. There are ...
The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals: a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and
highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive and
integrated ...
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Programme governance
(BMC, 2021)
Background: Community health workers (CHWs) can play a critical role in primary healthcare and are seen widely
as important to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The COVID-19 pandemic ...
Mapping and analysing community health worker programmes in the Eastern Mediterranean region
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2024)
Background: Community health worker (CHW) programmes are increasingly being recognized as an important strategy that can help to strengthen comprehensive primary health care (PHC), as the foundation of work towards achieving ...