Expanded roles of community health workers beyond malaria in the Asia-Pacific: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), community health workers (CHWs) are a key component of malaria elimination strategies. As malaria declines, support for, and uptake of, malaria services may also subsequently decrease. Expanding their roles beyond malaria has been proposed to sustain the services. A systematic review was conducted to identify and characterize programmes with CHWs providing services in addition to those for malaria in the Asia Pacific. This review describes the expanded roles, identifies evidence of impact or success of the programmes, and explores strategies to ensure sustainability and factors for effective implementation to inform the design of malaria CHW programmes. Searches were conducted in 6 databases, for grey literature, and in bibliographies of retrieved art

SUBMITTER: Jongdeepaisal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11482702 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature