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The middle gnome is the trickiest to capture. Make sure to send the water quickly into its area. CHWs often lead these groups or are group members. The success of CHWs achieving behaviour change to prevent disease and improve health requires repeated contact between community members and CHWs over a period of time, and is aided by peer support and community norms.
Ultimately, group members who witness visible benefits from their own behaviour change are able to provide the support and continuity necessary for sustained behaviour change among others. A particularly effective approach to using CHWs to promote behaviour change for child survival that has been widely used by the international NGO community is the use of Care Groups [ 97 ].
A paid promoter CHW travels from village to village to meet with Care Groups, which consist of 10 volunteer CHWs, each of whom is responsible for approximately 10 households. The Care Group meets once or twice a month for about two hours to learn and discuss a relevant health message.
Then, the volunteer CHW shares the message with the households for which she is responsible. The Care Group volunteers meet together as a Care Group 2—4 weeks later to discuss their experiences and also, in many projects, to report vital events. Then the cycle continues [ 97 ]. Healthcare provider Cultural perceptions of illness and treatment may undermine prevention, treatment, and care options. Community support groups can help bridge local belief patterns and specific local terminology with modern biomedical knowledge.
They can accompany CHWs on household visits to lend credibility to their behaviour change messaging, counsel families on specific health issues, and provide advocacy at community meetings. Some of these individuals may become patient advocates.
Others can support referrals and help with surveillance of communicable diseases, such as traditional healers referring patients with HIV and TB to health facilities in Mozambique [ 98 ]. Change agent Within the community, the social environment has an indirect but powerful effect on the practice of personal behaviours that promote good health. Among marginalized populations in particular, isolation, poverty, low self-esteem, discrimination, lack of social support, nomadic living, language barriers, and discriminatory power barriers are common.
These factors may limit knowledge, bias attitudes, and prevent the practice of lifesaving, preventive, home and care-seeking practices [ 74 ].
This information can also be used by the national health system to focus on emerging health issues. Visible community scoreboards can be created to provide community access to this information. Community-based organizations, village health committees, health facility management committees, and discussion forums can lend voice to communities and support greater participation in the work of CHWs [ 76 ]. CHWs in some villages in Kenya reported that they had a close relationship with their CHC, creating an environment of mutual support.
Because of the repeated, familiar interaction between the CHW and the household, CHWs were witness to instances of substance abuse, partner violence, environmental hazards, and child neglect among other community problems requiring social support beyond their training. Community-based organizations can help to address issues such as these. They can also organize community health action days and dialogue days with the CHW and other influential members of the community [ 26 ].
CHWs can collect information from households on vital events and disease prevalence and then engage the community with this information, thereby enhancing supportive community relationships as well as CHW motivation [ , ]. In Brazil, municipal health councils, which provide a major part of the funding for CHWs, took an active role in the local PHC programme, of which community health agents are a vital part [ 35 ].
There are several examples of CHW programmes in which CHWs have strong connections with the community that facilitate their work. In Afghanistan, CHW Days are held in communities throughout the country to express appreciation to CHWs for their services, fostering stronger relationships [ 67 ]. CHW performance could benefit from joint ownership and design of CHW programmes by the health sector and communities. Researchers have recognized that, while joint ownership begins at the national level, it is expressed operationally at the community level.
National-level dialogue could produce a framework for how collaboration might work, and local leaders and stakeholders could adapt and adjust normative guidance from the national level to meet the needs of local conditions [ 11 ].
One approach focuses on identifying key functional components of effective support and then identifying feasible local approaches to providing them [ ]. An effective CHW programme can serve as a catalyst for community engagement, but this is sustainable only as long as the relevant actors remain committed and the sociopolitical and economic environments remain conducive to the process [ ].
Recently, some have argued that mechanisms to engage citizens, especially through CHWs, are essential for high-quality interventions as well as for inclusive disaster response and preparedness programmes, such as those developed for COVID [ ].
Substantial and time-consuming investments are needed to secure the participation of the community at programme inception and for programme maintenance [ ]. The topic of this paper is a vast one, and all the articles that address these issues are not readily identified because many are focused primarily on other aspects of CHW programmes.
In spite of these limitations, we hope that the approach used here and the articles we cite can serve as a beginning point to investigate these issues in greater depth, to summarize more systematically the current state of knowledge, and to propose specific research questions to advance our knowledge of this important topic.
Community-based health programming focused on the promotion of healthy household behaviours, access to preventive services, management of common illnesses, and referral of those in need to higher-level medical care should be the foundation of an effective health system.
The CHW is in an intermediary position between the health system and the community. While this position can provide significant advantages in terms of advancing community health, it also requires that CHWs establish functional relationships with both sides, which have different expectations and needs. Therefore, CHWs need to have a role that is clearly understood by all parties, and CHWs need strong interpersonal communication skills.
There are chronic and widespread challenges to CHWs successfully playing their vital bridging role. Functioning patient referral and logistical supply systems are critical for the effective functioning of CHW programmes. Policymakers, funders, and programme managers need to know what conditions support CHWs to form quality relationships. Factors at the policy, local health system, community, interpersonal, and intrapersonal levels can enable or constrain beneficial relationships between the CHW, the health system, and communities.
Each CHW programme should make explicit how it expects community health services to contribute to health goals at different levels, including national health goals. This requires that programme managers understand what major disease burdens can be addressed by CHWs, which behaviours—if changed—would yield the greatest impact, what major interventions can avert death and serious morbidity, and which of these can be delivered in the community.
Community—CHW relationships are dynamic and iterative and are linked to social, political, and economic factors, reflecting that community participation is context-specific. Engaging the community is a process that requires leadership at all levels in the CHW programme, the support of the health system and local government, and partnerships with community organizations.
Better documentation and research on CHW relationships with the health system and communities, as well as enablers of and barriers to effective relationships, should be conducted more systematically in order to understand which factors have the most impact on CHW programme performance. Learning from the experiences of large-scale CHW programmes, anticipating common challenges faced by these programmes, and applying these lessons within the appropriate national and subnational context will be essential if the failures of large-scale CHW programmes in the s are not to be repeated and if CHW programmes are to reach their full potential.
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