community health workers

When El Salvador deployed community health teams, the result was not simply more primary care – it was better-organised care, with more prevention, less infectious disease, and fewer patients ending up in hospital for conditions that should never hav...

The end of guerrilla violence in Colombia reshaped the composition of healthcare workers in conflict-affected areas. Despite redistributing healthcare workers away from these areas, they maintained service quality, offering valuable insights for publ...

A shared performance incentive scheme for health workers and their supervisors improved productivity and health outcomes and was more effective than paying the incentive to only one group