Pakistan, India and Ethiopia are some of the countries that have formalised community-based health workers' services.
Although, some countries have implemented programmes aimed at formalising community-based health workers, there is limited knowledge from low and middle income settings on their daily work experience and how their experiences shape their motivation to work.
Later in life, these attitudes and behaviours are influenced and shaped by mesosystem level factors and are formalised in a community-based network (the exosystem).
Recent studies on formalised community-based health workforces have focused on recruitment processes [ 23], their contribution towards disease-specific outcomes [ 24- 26], cost control and logistical constraints [ 27], and programme management [ 7].
In the UK, and internationally, medication reviews are increasingly being formalised and commissioned through community pharmacies as they are seen to support patient medicine adherence [ 19- 23].
After attracting funding from a Jersey-based social investor, Steinbeck Studio, which also brought Assemble on board, the community land trust formalised its plans and took control of 10 empty properties from the council last year.
In addition, training in community awareness about disability issues has not been formalised.
Following discussions between the national department for cancer care in Ireland (National Cancer Control Programme), the local oncology hospital and community nursing staff, it was agreed that this initiative could be formalised and developed to provide a more holistic shared care approach.
Foreigners are banned from working in Ghana's small-scale mining industry, which was formalised in the 1980s to bring much-needed income to poor, rural communities.
These gatherings became formalised under the name of Agape (love) Feasts and were regularly held by Christian communities in the period between Jesus's death and the Council of Laodicea in 364AD.
