The Community Health Worker (CHW) Common Indicators Project: Engaging CHWs in Measurement to Sustain the Profession

Frontiers in Public Health

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Keara Rodela¹  Noelle Wiggins²  Kenneth Maes³  Teresa Campos-Dominguez⁴  Victoria Adewumi⁵  Pennie Jewell¹  Susan Mayfield-Johnson⁶ 

[1] Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, United States;Wiggins Health Consulting LLC, United States;Applied Anthropology Graduate Program, School of Language, Culture and Society, Oregon State University, United States;Multnomah County Health Department, United States;Manchester City Health Department, United States;School of Health Professions, University of Southern Mississippi, United States

关键词: community health workers;    measurement;    popular education;    participatory evaluation;    community based participatory research;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2021.674858

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Despite progress in documenting the outcomes of Community Health Worker interventions, the lack of standardized measures to assess CHW practice has made it difficult for programs to conduct reliable evaluations, and impossible to aggregate data across programs and regions, impeding commitment to sustainable, long-term financing of CHW programs. In addition, while CHWs have sometimes been involved as data collectors, they have seldom been engaged as full partners in all stages of evaluation and research. This manuscript details the current work being done by the CI Project, demonstrating how CHWs are able to contribute to the integrity, sustainability, and viability of CHW programs through the collaborative development and adoption of a set of common process and outcome constructs and indicators for CHW practice and CHW program implementation.

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