A5012981347- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Community Health and Development
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- ICT in Developing Communities
National Directorate of Geology
2015-2023
Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being used in low-income countries to address human resources shortages, yet there remain few effective, evidence-based strategies for addressing the enduring programmatic constraints of worker motivation, retention and performance. This paper describes how two interventions were designed by Innovations at Scale Access Lasting Effects (inSCALE) project these Uganda Mozambique drawing on behavioural theory formative research results. A review...
Community health workers are reemerging as an essential component of systems in low-income countries. However, there concerns that unless they adequately supported, their motivation and performance will be suboptimal. mHealth presents opportunity to improve support for community workers; however, most interventions date have been designed through a top-down approach, rarely involve the end user, not focused on motivation.To use formative research explore views Uganda Mozambique potential...
The majority of post-neonatal deaths in children under 5 are due to malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia (MDP). WHO recommends integrated community case management (iCCM) these conditions using community-based health workers (CHW). However iCCM programmes have suffered from poor implementation mixed outcomes. We designed evaluated a technology-based (mHealth) intervention package 'inSCALE' (Innovations At Scale For Community Access Lasting Effects) support increase appropriate treatment coverage...
Abstract Background The majority of post-neonatal deaths in children under 5 are due to malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia (MDP). WHO recommends integrated community case management (iCCM) these conditions using community-based health workers. However iCCM programmes have suffered from poor implementation mixed outcomes. We designed evaluated a technology-based intervention ‘inSCALE’ ( In novations At Sc ale For L asting E ffects) support increase appropriate treatment other outcomes for with...