A qualitative study was conducted in one rural district (Attock) of Pakistan to explain the role of the CMWs and the challenges faced by them in the provision of skilled care by exploring perspectives of CMWs and other community based workers as LHWs and LHSs.
During the third part, a list of seven functions prepared prior to the sessions by the investigators through consultation with health workers, community based workers and NHCs was introduced.
This process to link data users and data producers was considered successful in that the intervention allowing community based workers to distribute DMPA was eventually adopted by the MOHFP and was scaled up (25).
The MOHFP was interested in the strategy of allowing community based workers to distribute the injectable contraceptive method depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), but they wanted research evidence that quality DMPA services could be provided by community workers and that this method of delivery was acceptable.
The COPSI study aimed to develop and evaluate a community based intervention delivered by community based lay health workers working in collaboration with mental health specialists.
Since 2003 the government of Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained new cadres of community based health workers named health extension workers (HEWs).
The distribution of sucrose-electrolyte oral therapy packets (1 liter) by community-based workers in a rural Bangladesh population of 157,000 was evaluated.
Postpartum hemorrhage can be reduced substantially in home deliveries attended by community-based workers by using Oxytocin-in-Uniject (OIU) devices affixed with temperature-time indicators.
In brief, data were collected from 394 MSM randomly selected from venues and hotspots identified by community-based workers in two provinces of Battembang and Siem Reap provinces.
In rural Maharashtra, India, Dyal Chand et al. [ 73] evaluated a maternal care program delivered by community-based workers and reported a non-significant 27% reduction in fetal deaths [LOE: 3].
