This film is aimed at community health workers, parents and communities to teach them the important signs and symptoms to look for in a sick child ...and when and why they need to make sure they seek help as early as possible from a skilled health worker.
This film focuses primarily on the signs and symptoms of malaria.
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Patient Navigator & Community Health Worker Training. This course is organized into three modules that describe patient navigation’s role in redu...cing health disparities and improving treatment for chronic diseases.
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The role of community health workers in the vaccination against COVID-19: guide to support the implementation of the vaccination programme
The Community Health Nurse on the Go app aims to improve motivation among frontline health worke...rs through a mobile technology application. By providing this mobile phone application to community health officers, nurses and their supervisors, CHN will combine virtual peer-to-peer support with improved connectedness to a professional network and supervisors for frontline health workers involved in maternal, newborn and child health service delivery.
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Health care waste management (HCWM) and infection prevention and control (IPC) represent serious concerns for HIV programs. Improperly handled infectious health care waste poses risks to ...="attribute-to-highlight medbox">health workers, their clients, the community, and the environment. Improper injection practices can lead to new HIV and other infections for health workers and clients. Beginning in 2015, AIDSFree continued the work started by the Government of Nigeria and USAID in 2004 to strengthen activities in IPC and HCWM. This report describes AIDSFree's results over 15 months of implementation of HCWM and IPC activities in seven Nigerian states prioritized by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
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A training manual for the Community Health Workers.
The manual is being used to train primary health<.../span> care providers on identification, first aid and referral of common blinding conditions in children.
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This manual is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with children with communication difficulties and their families. The manual contains information on general aspects of communica...tion, causes of communication impairment, sample assessments, and advice for parents and those involved in the training of health and education workers. You can download section by section from the website
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Civil Society Organisations’ contribution towards community engagement to access and demand health services and encourage communities to practice appropriate ...dbox">health-seeking behaviour in Mon and Chin States. The study recognizes that civil society can promote people-centered health by creating an enabling environment for broad and active citizen participation. The VHCs/Volunteer Working Groups play a key role in facilitating engagement between the village community and the Basic Health Staff (BHS).
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Helping Children Live with HIV offers a holistic approach by building on the existing knowledge of parents and caregivers and respecting the importance of other local resources. It integrates health care, illness prevention, and psychosocial support... for children and families coping with poverty, food insecurity, emotional trauma, loss, as well as stigma and discrimination.
This guide is intended for broad use by parents, family members, and health workers in home settings and throughout community-based health programs.
To learn more, view the table of contents and a sample chapter, and to buy your copy of this essential new resource from Hesperian.
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This I-Kit provides essential information and tools for responding to an outbreak using an SBCC approach. It presents a series of nine units, each accompanied by exercise worksheets to help link the SBCC theory to practice.
The ...bute-to-highlight medbox">worksheets in each section are typically followed by a completed example. The completed examples will likely include information about an emergency that, during an actual event, might not be immediately available. This was done to illustrate the full range of information to inform a strategic communication response.
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The Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) is a health systems improvement programme designed to support the work of primary care health ...="attribute-to-highlight medbox">workers in underserved communities (like doctors, nurses, midwives, health officers, community health practitioners), strengthen the health services in which they work and thereby achieve the best possible patient outcomes
You can register for free and get the PACK Global Adult Guide for free
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CHW Ce...ntral believes that community health workers are key to achieving universal health coverage and reducing global health inequities. As the preeminent global resource on CHWs and CHW programs, CHW Central increases access to online information to improve the quality of CHW programs and services. We advocate for CHWs to be appropriately integrated into the global health workforce and represented and connected through strong networks and associations.
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This flipchart is a visual support for community workers, health workers, emergency ..."attribute-to-highlight medbox">workers, and in general all staff conducting face-to-face communication in response to a cholera outbreak.
How to use it?
The flipchart is intended as a support for animating individual or group discussions on life-saving practices.
To facilitate involvement of communities for an effective response to the outbreak, this flipchart should be used to provide information and stimulate discussion, rather than to “pass messages”.
An integrated communication approach
The flipchart should not be used alone; effective communication strategy involves the use of a variety of channels and actors. It will be critical to integrate face-to-face discussion with other channels such as local radios, schools, mosques, churches, etc., and to associate different actors such as technical experts, community representatives and opinion leaders to animate them.
In emergency context it is critical not only to stimulate discussion but also to create mechanisms for interaction between communities and service providers such as regular meetings, participation to radio broadcasts or visits by community representatives to health posts; these mechanisms need to be carefully catered for with appropriate planning and resources.
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The Extending Service Delivery (ESD) project has developed Healthy Timing and Spacing of
Pregnancy: A Trainer’s Reference Guide as a resource for trainers in developing in-service training
for facility-based healthcare providers and community ...pan class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">health workers (chws) who already have
some basic experience with and understanding of FP/RH. This is not a training manual, but a
reference guide which can be used and adapted by trainers based on whether or not trainees are facilitybased
or community-based.
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IYCN supported the Government of Haiti to develop this set of nationally-validated infant and young child feeding counseling cards for health workers and ...community workers. IYCN developed the messages based on formative research and pre-tested the cards to ensure that they are locally appropriate.
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