Resultado de búsqueda
3 de abr. de 2018 · The WHO Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 encourages countries to adopt a diverse, sustainable skills mix, harnessing the potential of community-based and mid-level health workers in inter-professional primary care teams.
Los trabajadores comunitarios de la salud —Community Health Workers (CHWs, por sus siglás en inglés)— actn como intermediarios, educadores y mediadores culturales entre los proveedores de servicios de atenci médica y trabajadores sociales, y las comunidades a las que prestan servicios, tales como las poblaciones prioritarias de COVID-19: afroame...
- The Emergence of Community Work
- The Gulbenkian Report: Community Work and Social Change
- The Community Development Projects
- Community Work in The 1980s – Service Extension
- Community Work Today
- Other References
In the late 1950s and early 1960s accounts of practice and theoretical explorations began to appear that viewed community workers as a distinct occupation. Prior to this there were separate groups of workers such as community centre wardens, secretaries of councils of social services and development workers on new housing estates, who did not posse...
The Gulbenkian Report was actually focused around training but inevitably spread its net much wider. Community work was taken to include: From this the committee concluded that community work had in it aspects of direct neighbourhood work, closer relations between services and people, inter-agency coordination, and planning and policy formulation. ...
During the 1960s and early 1970s there was a growing recognition of the extent to which poverty remained a major feature of UK society (see, for example, Coates and Silburn 1970). There had also been a fairly substantial series of debates around the significance and importance of people’s participation in various aspects of government activity – pe...
In the early 1980s another report sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (and written by David Thomas) suggested that community work had three major aspects: In a sense these five approaches are far broader than ‘community work’ – especially the last, service extension. As Thomas argues: Here, especially, we need to consider youth work, ad...
The state-sponsored community work that has remained following the Banking Crisis of 2007-8, is largely locked into the mix of care, economic development and service delivery improvement work that developed during the 1980s and 1990s. However, three particular areas of state-sponsored work did for a time, and to some limited extent, bring a stronge...
Alinsky, S. D. (1946) Reveille for Radicals(1969 edn.), New York: Random House. Alinsky, S. D. (1971) Rules for Radicals. A pragmatic primer for realistic radicals, New York: Vintage. Baldock, P. (1977) ‘Why community action? The historical origins of the radical trend in British community work’, Community Development Journal 12(2) also reprinted i...
29 de nov. de 2023 · What does a community health worker do? Community health workers (CHWs) support the community in many ways by providing outreach, maternity support, first aid, education, advocacy, and informal counseling.
7 de abr. de 2021 · This infographic shows how Community Health Workers (CHWs) promote health equity and improve public health. The CHW workforce is diverse, growing, and drawing attention to its ability to address determinants of poor health.
Kamala, Maria, Sadiya and Bahareh are among the remarkable community health workers who bring essential services to children and mothers in Nepal, Ecuador, Afghanistan and Nigeria. These are their stories:
29 de ago. de 2023 · In the U.S., community health workers accompany individuals on their health care journey, advocate for their community’s health needs, and match individuals to essential social support, all of which are integral activities to ensure the right to health for everyone.
