Evaluation of a volunteer community-based health worker program for providing contraceptive services in Madagascar

Abstract

Although areas of deficiency were identified, CHWs proved capable of providing high-quality contraception services.

Exploration of volunteers as health connectors within a multicomponent primary care‐based program supporting self‐management of diabetes and hypertension

“…It required an infrastructure for dealing with volunteer needs that came up and responding accordingly. Other research has found that aspects correlated with higher performance were: more education, more weekly hours and receiving refresher training (Gallo et al, ). Our training evaluation included both the initial launch and ongoing training sessions.…”

“…It required an infrastructure for dealing with volunteer needs that came up and responding accordingly. Other research has found that aspects correlated with higher performance were: more education, more weekly hours and receiving refresher training (Gallo et al, 2013 Volunteers felt the face-to-face visits were an important element of the program. Though previous research has provided evidence that telephone support can impact recipients' health outcomes (Dale et al, 2008) and face-to-face visits may necessitate a larger output of time and resources, volunteers in our study felt that face-to-face visits added elements that could not always be captured over the phone or online.…”

Providing family planning services to remote communities in areas of high biodiversity through a Population-Health-Environment programme in Madagascar

“…Contraceptive methods were provided to them at cost price to sell at the nationally fixed and affordable retail price, enabling them to generate a small income from this otherwise voluntary work, a model which has proven capable of delivering high quality family planning services. 31 They were also trained by Blue Ventures staff to offer antenatal and post-natal education. By using this social enterprise model of community-based distribution alongside the family planning clinics, the programme was able to grow to cover 40 villages along Madagascar's southwest coastline, providing services to a total of 12,000 people.…”

Assessing the Competency and Acceptability of Community Health Worker Provision of Standard Days Method® in Family Planning Services in Gisagara District, Rwanda

“…CHWs and other community agents have been shown to be capable of offering a variety of methods including pills (Gallo et al. ; Perry, Zulliger, and Rogers ) injectables (Huber, Saeedi. and Samadi ; Lebetkin et al.…”

“…Clients benefit from cost and time savings by receiving services in their community (Simba et al 2011;Shelus et al 2015), and generally report high levels of satisfaction with their health worker (Stanback, Mbonye, and Bekiita 2007;Lebetkin et al 2014;Hoke et al 2011;Charyeva et al 2015;Prata et al 2011). CHWs and other community agents have been shown to be capable of offering a variety of methods including pills (Gallo et al 2013;Perry, Zulliger, and Rogers 2014) injectables (Huber, Saeedi. and Samadi 2010;Lebetkin et al 2014;Stanback, Mbonye, and Bekiita 2007), emergency contraception (Chin-Quee, Stanback, and Graham 2016;Khan, Hossain, and Rahman 2004), implants (Charyeva et al 2015), and Fertility Awareness Methods such as the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (IRH 2008;Sebastian et al 2012) and SDM (Johri, Panwar, and Lundgren 2005;Toth 2011;IRH 2003).…”