The impact of community-delivered models of malaria control and elimination: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community-delivered models have been widely used to reduce the burden of malaria. This review aimed to explore different community-delivered models and their relative effectiveness in terms of coverage and malaria-metric outcomes in order to inform the design and implementation of Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes for malaria control and elimination.

Methods

A systematic review of studies investigating the impact of community-delivered models on coverage and malaria-metric (parasitaemia and hyperparasitaemia, malaria case and mortality, anaemia, and fever) outcomes compared to non- community-delivered models was undertaken by searching in five databases of published papers and grey literature databases. Data were extracted from studies meeting inclusion and

SUBMITTER: Win Han Oo 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6683427 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature