Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases.

By S. Lewin, Susan Munabi-Babigumira, C. Glenton, Karen Daniels, X. Bosch-Capblanch, Brian E van Wyk, J. Odgaard-Jensen, M. Johansen, G. Aja, Merrick Zwarenstein and 1 more. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Citations in the corpus

• PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: Reporting Guidelines for Systematic Reviews with a Focus on Health Equity (2012, background): “For example, a Cochrane review of lay health workers suggested considerations for the assessment of applicability in different settings such as health system characteristics and on the ground constraints [33].”
• A Plea for More Robust Accountability Structures in the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 (2023, positive): “This requires adopting a diverse and sustainable skill mix, and harnessing the potential of community-based and mid-level practitioners to extend service provision to poor and marginalized populations.(35,36) In many settings, developing a national policy to integrate, where they exist, communitybas”