Sumit Kane, Maryse Kok, Hermen Ormel, Lilian Otiso et al.
BACKGROUND: In LMICs, Community Health Workers (CHW) increasingly play health promotion related roles involving 'Empowerment of communities'. To be able to empower the communities they serve, we argue, it is essential that CHWs themselves be, and feel, empowered. We present here a critique of how di...
Hermen Ormel, Maryse Kok, Sumit Kane, Rukhsana Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The recent publication of the WHO guideline on support to optimise community health worker (CHW) programmes illustrates the renewed attention for the need to strengthen the performance of CHWs. Performance partly depends on motivation, which in turn is influenced by incentives. This pape...
Rosalind Steege, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Rosalind McCollum, Kate Hawkins et al.
Close-to-community (CTC) providers have been identified as a key cadre to progress universal health coverage and address inequities in health service provision due to their embedded position within communities. CTC providers both work within, and are subject to, the gender norms at community level b...
Ilias Mahmud, Sadia Chowdhury, Bulbul Siddiqi, Sally Theobald et al.
BACKGROUND: A range of formal and informal close-to-community (CTC) health service providers operate in an increasingly urbanized Bangladesh. Informal CTC health service providers play a key role in Bangladesh's pluralistic health system, yet the reasons for their popularity and their interactions w...
Gani Ms, Malabika Sarker, Siddiqi Ba, Ilias Mahmud et al.
Close-to-community (CTC) health service providers are playing an important role in delivering health services in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. CTC health service providers are the most easily accessible and widely accessed providers. There is a gap in the evidence base on the roles respo...