Concept Note: Community Health Workers
2018
Community health workers (CHWs)—lay people who engage in efforts to improve the health of their communities—have been proposed as a way to fill the global health human resource gap by extending services to hard-to-reach populations in remote areas. This concept note provides a brief history of CHWs, considers issues in CHW program design, and outlines future directions for research and funding.
It may be used to enhance understanding of cases relevant to teaching cases produced by the Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project that focus on reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH).
The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, investigates the management decisions behind disease treatment and prevention globally. The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Case Collection is a set of teaching case studies that are available for all at no cost online through Harvard Business Publishing, GHDonline, and The Case Centre.
Concept Note: Community Health Workers
Source:
Ballard M et al. Concept Note: Community Health Workers. Global Health Delivery Project, Harvard Business Publishing 2018. https://www.globalhealthdelivery.org/case-collection/concept-note/community-health-workers.