The Research Round-Up showcases the latest evidence on all things Community Health

100 issues of the research round-up.

Since 2018, we’ve been compiling a regular research round-up of the most insightful, illuminating, and provocative studies and papers about Community Health Workers (CHWs) and community health.

For each paper, we provide the key takeaways and implications.

This enables you to stay up-to-date with the current literature on CHWs and community health quickly and easily.

February 2023’s issue of the Round-Up was our one hundredth. To celebrate this milestone we shared ten highlights from across the 100 issues, these highlights were selected CHIC members.

And we held a virtual event showcasing some of these papers and exploring the research landscape broadly, including reaffirming our shared path forward for CHW research and policy-making.

The top ten.

1. How do decision-makers use evidence in community health policy and financing decisions? A qualitative study and conceptual framework in four African countries

2. The impact of paid community health worker deployment on child survival: the connect randomized cluster trial in rural Tanzania

3. Continuity of community-based healthcare provision during COVID-19: a multicountry interrupted time series analysis

4. Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline

5. Psychosocial distress among unpaid community health workers in rural Ethiopia: Comparing leaders in Ethiopia’s Women’s Development Army to their peers

6. Putting community health workers on the map: Toward a geography of community health workers

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

8. Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision: a randomised controlled trial

9. A conceptual framework for measuring community health workforce performance within primary health care systems

10. Community Health Worker Programs to Improve Healthcare Access and Equity: Are They Only Relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

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