scholarly journals Detroit's East Side Village Health Worker Partnership: Community-Based Lay Health Advisor Intervention in an Urban Area

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith A. Parker ◽  
Amy J. Schulz ◽  
Barbara A. Israel ◽  
Rose Hollis
Keyword(s):  
Health Worker ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
East Side ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Village Health Worker ◽  
Lay Health Advisor ◽  
Village Health

scholarly journals The East Side Village Health Worker Partnership: integrating research with action to reduce health disparities

2001 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 548-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J Schulz ◽  
Barbara A Israel ◽  
Edith A Parker ◽  
Murlisa Lockett ◽  
Yolanda Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
East Side ◽  
Village Health Worker ◽  
Village Health

Collaborative model as a training for increasing village health worker competency about complementary feeding

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-207
Author(s):  
Habibah Abidin ◽  
Apoina Kartini ◽  
Ani Margawati
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Counseling Skills ◽  
Collaborative Model ◽  
Village Health Worker ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Village Health

Background: A Kader refers to a Village Health Worker (VHW), a volunteer, which becomes one of the sources of community reference. Commonly, they sustain a mother's knowledge regarding adequate complementary feeding. However, there are still some VHW who have not possessed a health education background nor been able to be independent.Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the impact of collaborative models on VHW's competence as in knowledge, self-efficacy, attitudes, and counseling skill on the topic of complementary feeding.Materials and Methods: The design of this research is a quasi-experiment control group pretest-postest, with the retrieval of subjects using purposive sampling. Subjects were selected based on the location of the posyandu. The population in this research was VHWs in the Lembang district were 40 VHWs in each group. The treatment group was given training intervention for 1 month with a collaborative model, combining several methods into a series. The main topic was counseling and complementary feeding. The control group was given booklets and leaflets. VHW's competence was measured using questionnaires. This research was conducted in January-April 2020.Results: Statistical test results before the treatment of both groups showed no difference (p>0,05) in each variable. Two months after the intervention, there were significant differensces in the mean score of knowledge (p=0,001), attitude (p=0,001), and VHWs self-efficacy (p=0,000) in both groups. VHW counseling skills (p=0,149) until the first month there was not a significant difference. Unexpectedly, in the second month, the VHW counseling skills could not be observed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The mean score of each group increased significantly, but the score of the treatment group was higher than the control group.Conclusions: A collaborative model is effective when compared to only providing booklets and leaflets in increasing VHW's knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy but not effective yet for VHW counseling skills.

The Village Health Worker Project in Lesotho: An Evaluation

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
P P Andriessen ◽  
R P van der Endt ◽  
M H Gotink
Keyword(s):  
Health Worker ◽  
Village Health Worker ◽  
The Village ◽  
Village Health

A new approach to decision making in primary health care

1980 ◽  
Vol 209 (1174) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Keyword(s):  
Health Worker ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Village Health Worker ◽  
Birth Attendants ◽  
Flow Charts ◽  
The Village ◽  
Village Health ◽  
Made In

The village health worker has two basic tasks: (1) to prevent health problems; (2) to identify and provide effective management of illness in the village. The village health worker has limited education and the length of basic health training is usually 12 weeks. This training can only be considered appropriate if it enables the village health worker to practise effectively within the cultural, social, economic and educational constraints of the village. How far does the training help this worker to work with other members of the village community to prevent illness? These others include mothers, children, school teachers, village leaders, religious leaders, traditional birth attendants, and traditional healers; training needs to be problem-orientated. The management decisions that have to be made in situations of shortage of resources are complex to analyse. A W. H. O. research project has been undertaken to determine the feasibility of developing and using flow charts to provide alternative and more appropriate methods to help the village health worker to provide optimal management in suboptimal situations. Some examples of these new methods are presented.

Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Community-Based Participatory Research: The East Side Village Health Worker Partnership

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Schulz ◽  
Edith A. Parker ◽  
Barbara A. Israel ◽  
Alex Allen ◽  
Maggie Decarlo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Stress Process ◽  
East Side ◽  
Stress Process Model ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Village Health

The authors describe the use of a stress process model by the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership (ESVHWP), a project of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, as a framework for understanding social determinants of health. Specifically, the authors describe the development by the ESVHWP Steering Committee of a context-specific stress process model for east side Detroit residents. The authors examine data from in-depth interviews to illuminate actions taken by community members to reduce stressors or minimize their impact on health. Finally, the authors describe the use of this context-specific stress process model and data gathered regarding actions to address community stressors to inform the development of interventions by the ESVHWP to reduce stressors or strengthen the conditioning factors that reduce the impact of stress on health. On the basis of these results, the authors discuss opportunities and challenges for partnership approaches to addressing social determinants of health in urban communities.

scholarly journals A case-based approach to village health worker supervisor continuing education

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
J. Grigg ◽  
S. Iyer ◽  
E. Goss ◽  
A. Patel ◽  
N. Murakami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Village Health Worker ◽  
Village Health ◽  
Case Based
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