Lay health workers in primary and community health care (review1)

The effects, safety and acceptability of compact, pre‐filled, autodisable injection devices when delivered by lay health workers

“…• Intervention deliverers: LHWs. We defined the term 'lay health worker' as any health worker (paid or voluntary) who performed functions related to healthcare delivery and was trained in some way in the context of the intervention but did not receive any formal professional or paraprofessional certificate or tertiary education degree (Lewin et al 2005). These comprise community/village health workers, community/village midwives, community/village volunteers, lady health workers/visitors, traditional birth attendants, peer counsellors and home visitors.…”

The effects, safety and acceptability of compact, pre‐filled, autodisable injection devices when delivered by lay health workers

“…• Intervention deliverers: LHWs. We defined the term 'lay health worker' as any health worker (paid or voluntary) who performed functions related to healthcare delivery and was trained in some way in the context of the intervention but did not receive any formal professional or paraprofessional certificate or tertiary education degree (Lewin et al 2005). These comprise community/village health workers, community/village midwives, community/village volunteers, lady health workers/visitors, traditional birth attendants, peer counsellors and home visitors.…”

Resourcing local government in Ghana: the potential of volunteering to deliver basic services

“…Nevertheless, in spite of these possible drawbacks, volunteers can be key actors in the achievement of many aims which the community development process seeks to realise. Furthermore, volunteering has become one of the main pathways through which the values and principles of local-level development can be made manifest (Lewin et al 2008;Butcher and Smith 2010;Hope 2012). Research on volunteering supports the assertion that when people are offered opportunities to take up roles and actions which suit their skills and passions, community development becomes successful (Brown and Green 2015).…”

Psychological interventions for parents of children and adolescents with chronic illness

“…Savage 2011), whilst others concern lay- or nurse-mediated social support (e.g. Lewin 2010). In psychological science, specific treatment approaches have been developed that focus on reducing the emotional distress expressed by parents, or on altering parenting behaviours to promote better child outcomes, whether this be decreasing emotional distress, or improving physical symptoms or behaviour.…”

The effects, safety and acceptability of compact, pre‐filled, autodisable injection devices when delivered by lay health workers

“…• Intervention deliverers: LHWs. We defined the term 'lay health worker' as any health worker (paid or voluntary) who performed functions related to healthcare delivery and was trained in some way in the context of the intervention but did not receive any formal professional or paraprofessional certificate or tertiary education degree (Lewin et al 2005). These comprise community/village health workers, community/village midwives, community/village volunteers, lady health workers/visitors, traditional birth attendants, peer counsellors and home visitors.…”

Resourcing local government in Ghana: the potential of volunteering to deliver basic services

“…Nevertheless, in spite of these possible drawbacks, volunteers can be key actors in the achievement of many aims which the community development process seeks to realise. Furthermore, volunteering has become one of the main pathways through which the values and principles of local-level development can be made manifest (Lewin et al 2008;Butcher and Smith 2010;Hope 2012). Research on volunteering supports the assertion that when people are offered opportunities to take up roles and actions which suit their skills and passions, community development becomes successful (Brown and Green 2015).…”

Psychological interventions for parents of children and adolescents with chronic illness

“…Savage 2011), whilst others concern lay- or nurse-mediated social support (e.g. Lewin 2010). In psychological science, specific treatment approaches have been developed that focus on reducing the emotional distress expressed by parents, or on altering parenting behaviours to promote better child outcomes, whether this be decreasing emotional distress, or improving physical symptoms or behaviour.…”

The effects, safety and acceptability of compact, pre‐filled, autodisable injection devices when delivered by lay health workers

“…• Intervention deliverers: LHWs. We defined the term 'lay health worker' as any health worker (paid or voluntary) who performed functions related to healthcare delivery and was trained in some way in the context of the intervention but did not receive any formal professional or paraprofessional certificate or tertiary education degree (Lewin et al 2005). These comprise community/village health workers, community/village midwives, community/village volunteers, lady health workers/visitors, traditional birth attendants, peer counsellors and home visitors.…”

Resourcing local government in Ghana: the potential of volunteering to deliver basic services

“…Nevertheless, in spite of these possible drawbacks, volunteers can be key actors in the achievement of many aims which the community development process seeks to realise. Furthermore, volunteering has become one of the main pathways through which the values and principles of local-level development can be made manifest (Lewin et al 2008;Butcher and Smith 2010;Hope 2012). Research on volunteering supports the assertion that when people are offered opportunities to take up roles and actions which suit their skills and passions, community development becomes successful (Brown and Green 2015).…”

Psychological interventions for parents of children and adolescents with chronic illness

“…Savage 2011), whilst others concern lay- or nurse-mediated social support (e.g. Lewin 2010). In psychological science, specific treatment approaches have been developed that focus on reducing the emotional distress expressed by parents, or on altering parenting behaviours to promote better child outcomes, whether this be decreasing emotional distress, or improving physical symptoms or behaviour.…”