Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

WA Odendaal, JA Watkins, N Leon… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Mobile health (mHealth), refers to healthcare practices supported by mobile
devices, such as mobile phones and tablets. Within primary care, health workers often use …

[HTML][HTML] Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education

MJ Schleiff, I Aitken, MA Alam, ZA Damtew… - Health Research Policy …, 2021 - Springer
Background This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health
Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Expectations of community health workers (CHWs) have …

[BOOK][B] WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes

World Health Organization - 2018 - apps.who.int
Addressing health workforce shortage, maldistribution and performance challenges is
essential for progress towards all health-related goals, including universal health coverage …

Students' experiences of using digital technologies to address their personal research needs during the COVID-19 lockdown

LH Sokhulu - African Identities, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Digital technologies have been developed for postgraduate students to help them to access
data and published research, write their dissertations, and communicate with their …

The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: a critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent and accountability

M Schaaf, C Warthin, L Freedman, SM Topp - BMJ Global Health, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
This paper is a critical interpretive synthesis of community health workers (CHWs) and
accountability in low-income and middle-income countries. The guiding questions were …

Using WhatsApp messenger for health systems research: a scoping review of available literature

K Manji, J Hanefeld, J Vearey, H Walls… - Health policy and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Globally, the use of mobile phones for improving access to healthcare and conducting
health research has gained traction in recent years as rates of ownership increase …

Ongoing training of community health workers in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review of the literature

J O'Donovan, C O'Donovan, I Kuhn, SE Sachs… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Understanding the current landscape of ongoing training for community health
workers (CHWs) in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is important both for …

Facilitating professional mobile learning communities with instant messaging

C Pimmer, F Brühlmann, TD Odetola… - Computers & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Although Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) is a massive communication
phenomenon and its educational use can be seen as a genuine form of mobile learning, it …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of performance-enhancing health worker supervision approaches in low-and middle-income countries

R Deussom, D Mwarey, M Bayu, SS Abdullah… - Human resources for …, 2022 - Springer
Background The strength of a health system—and ultimately the health of a population—
depends to a large degree on health worker performance. However, insufficient support to …

Empowerment on the margins: The online experiences of community health workers

A Ismail, N Kumar - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Research in Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) routinely relies on and
engages with the increasing penetration of smartphones and the internet. We examine the …