Community Health Workers and Disasters: Lessons Learned from the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal

Fredricks, Karla; Dinh, Hao; Kusi, Manita; Yogal, Chandra; Burke, Thomas F.; Nelson, Brett D.

doi:10.1017/s1049023x1700680x

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“…Many pregnant women experienced abdominal pain, genital bleeding, urinary tract infections, and stress. However, they did not receive any medical attention [ 22 , 32 , 34 ]. Several studies documented the lack of transport services or the long way to walk to reach the facilities due to poor road connectivity and the demand for higher transport charges.…”

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Challenges in Maternal and Child Health Services Delivery and Access during Pandemics or Public Health Disasters in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

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Maternal and child health (MCH) has been a global priority for many decades and is an essential public health service. Ensuring seamless delivery is vital for desirable MCH outcomes. This systematic review outlined the challenges in accessing and continuing MCH services during public health emergencies—pandemics and disasters. A comprehensive search approach was built based on keywords and MeSH terms relevant to ‘MCH services’ and ‘pandemics/disasters’. The online repositories Medline, CINAHL, Psyc INFO, and Epistemonikos were searched for studies. We included twenty studies—seven were on the Ebola outbreak, two on the Zika virus, five related to COVID-19, five on disasters, and one related to conflict situations. The findings indicate the potential impact of emergencies on MCH services. Low utilization and access to services have been described as common challenges. The unavailability of personal safety equipment and fear of infection were primary factors that affected service delivery. The available evidence, though limited, indicates the significant effect of disasters and pandemics on MCH. However, more primary in-depth studies are needed to understand better the overall impact of emergencies, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, on MCH. Our synthesis offers valuable insights to policymakers on ensuring the uninterrupted provision of MCH services during an emergency.

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Challenges in Maternal and Child Health Services Delivery and Access during Pandemics or Public Health Disasters in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

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“…5 Although there is a now-emerging, appropriate strong push globally to develop full-time, salaried Community Health Worker (CHW) cadres in low-income settings, 14 the contributions of CGPP CVs documented in this article provide strong evidence that community-based volunteers can play an important role in addressing priority health problems, as have other recent reports. 1,15–20…”

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The CORE Group Polio Project’s Community Volunteers and Polio Eradication in Ethiopia: Self-Reports of Their Activities, Knowledge, and Contributions

Asegedew¹,

Tessema

Perry

et al. 2019

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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In 2001, the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) began to support polio eradication initiatives in hard-toreach pastoralist and semi-pastoralist high-risk border areas of Ethiopia by training and supporting community volunteers (CVs) for immunization promotion and community-based surveillance activities. This article describes the development and current status of the CGPP CV network in Ethiopia. It also reports the results of a 2016 survey of CVs. Community volunteers are selected jointly by the local community, local government officials, and local health facility staff. They work closely with the health extension worker in their area and are responsible for 50-100 households. More than 12,000 CVs have been trained and have reached six million people. They make routine home visits to 1) provide education on vaccinepreventable diseases, 2) promote healthy behaviors, 3) inform parents on how to access immunization services, and 4) report cases of acute flaccid paralysis, neonatal tetanus, and measles as well as births. The 2016 survey of 675 CVs demonstrated that 84.1% had conducted home visits in the previous month to 1) identify and register pregnant mothers and newborns, 2) provide health education, 3) conduct disease surveillance, and 4) search for and register immunization defaulters. Of the CVs, 98.2% reported that their work had led to improvements in the community. Knowledge of CVs about vaccine-preventable diseases was suboptimal. CVs expressed a desire for more training. Community volunteers have made notable contributions to polio eradication efforts in high-risk areas of Ethiopia as well as to immunization promotion and disease control more broadly.

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“…Health cadres who get more information from training and education about emergencies and disasters will get more information and knowledge than those who have never been Village health cadres consist of people who live in the community who contribute to primary health care to improve health status. Cadres play an important role in the crisis phase or the emergency phase because many victims can be saved in the first hours after the crisis (14). Evidence shows that health cadres can play an important role in the development and achievement of emergency management (15).…”

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Capacity Building of Village Health Cadres in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Volcanic Disaster Prone Areas of Banyumas Regency

Kamaluddin¹,

Rahayu²

2021

ASRO

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This study aims to evaluate the training to increase village health cadres capacity in areas which prone to volcanic eruptions in Banyumas regency. Methods : This research used quasi eksperiment non equivalent pre and post test group with control design . The population in this study is the village health volunteers in disaster-prone areas of Mount Slamet as many as 9 villages. The sample in thiswere 32 people for the intervention group and 32 controls. Results : The results of this research is the increased knowledge (p <0.05), and the skills of village health cadres (p<0.05) regarding disaster risk reduction. Conclusions : Disaster preparedness training for village health cadres could improve the knowledge and skills of cadres in disaster risk reduction. Village health cadres has endure difficult task and duty, so special health cadres in disaster risk reduction, called cadres of disaster preparedness (KASTANA) is needed.

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Community Health Workers and Disasters: Lessons Learned from the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Challenges in Maternal and Child Health Services Delivery and Access during Pandemics or Public Health Disasters in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Challenges in Maternal and Child Health Services Delivery and Access during Pandemics or Public Health Disasters in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

The CORE Group Polio Project’s Community Volunteers and Polio Eradication in Ethiopia: Self-Reports of Their Activities, Knowledge, and Contributions

Capacity Building of Village Health Cadres in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Volcanic Disaster Prone Areas of Banyumas Regency

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