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Who are community health workers and what do they do? Development of an empirically derived reporting taxonomy
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Taylor, Beck, Mathers, Jonathan and Parry, Jayne (2018) Who are community health workers and what do they do? Development of an empirically derived reporting taxonomy. Journal of Public Health, 40 (1). pp. 199-209. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdx033 ISSN 1741-3842.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdx033
Abstract
Objectives
To develop an empirically-informed reporting taxonomy for Community Health Worker (CHW) services to address concerns about the transparency and consistency of descriptions of these interventions in the existing literature
Methods
We undertook in-depth interviews (n = 43) with CHWs and service staff working in four case studies selected using maximum variation sampling. Interviewees were encouraged to talk about the service, how they had become involved with the service, the CHW role and relationship with clients.
Results
Thematic analysis identified recurrent cross-case observations which we classed as ‘who CHW are’ and ‘what CHW do’. CHW's personal characteristics comprised the sub-groups knowledge and skills, personal qualities, similarity to client and voluntary/paid status; role characteristics comprised time and continuity, settings, limited responsibility, core task and enacted philosophies.
Conclusions
We have developed a conceptual framework for reporting CHW interventions based on the existing literature and our own empirical work. Compared with existing work in the field, the taxonomy uses nomenclature that minimizes current overlap and confusion, and provides a more complete description of CHW characteristics.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Public Health | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1741-3842 | ||||||
Official Date: | March 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 199-209 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/pubmed/fdx033 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Free Access (unspecified licence, 'bronze OA') |
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