Appendix 1: Articles Pertinent to the Concept: Village Health Worker

Appendix 1: Articles Pertinent to the Concept: Village Health Worker

Abiodun, O. A. (1992). Emotional illness in a paediatric population in Nigeria. East African Medical Journal, 69(10), 557-559.

Ager, A., & Pepper, K. (2005). Patterns of health service utilization and perceptions of needs and services in rural Orissa. Health Policy and Planning, 20(3), 176-184. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czi021

Ahmad, S. A., Sayed, M. H. S., Khan, M. H., Karim, M. N., Haque, M. A., Bhuiyan, M. S. A., et al. (2007). Sociocultural aspects of arsenicosis in Bangladesh: community perspective. Journal of Environmental Science and Health. Part A, Toxic/Hazardous Substances & Environmental Engineering, 42(12), 1945-1958. doi: 10.1080/10934520701567247

Ahmed, S. M., Hossain, M. A., & Chowdhury, M. R. (2009). Informal sector providers in Bangladesh: how equipped are they to provide rational health care? Health Policy and Planning, 24(6), 467-478. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czp037

Ahmed, S. M., Tomson, G., Petzold, M., & Kabir, Z. N. (2005). Socioeconomic status overrides age and gender in determining health-seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83(2), 109-117. doi: /S0042-96862005000200011

Akpovi, S. U., Johnson, D. C., & Brieger, W. R. (1981). Guinea worm control: testing the efficacy of health education in primary care. International Journal of Health Education, 24(4), 229-237.

Alam, N., van Ginneken, J. K., & Timaeus, I. (2009). Determinants of perceived morbidity and use of health services by children less than 15 years old in rural Bangladesh. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 13(1), 119-129. doi: 10.1007/s10995-008-0320-x

Alem, A., Jacobsson, L., Araya, M., Kebede, D., & Kullgren, G. (1999). How are mental disorders seen and where is help sought in a rural Ethiopian community? A key informant study in Butajira, Ethiopia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum, 397, 40-47.

Anderson, D., Harris, M., & McCosker, H. (1997). Violence against women: an education program for rural community health workers. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 5(1), 17-21.

Andriessen, P. P., van der Endt, R. P., & Gotink, M. H. (1990). The village health worker project in Lesotho: an evaluation. Tropical Doctor, 20(3), 111-113.

Ariff, K. M., & Teng, C. L. (2002). Rural health care in Malaysia. The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 10(2), 99-103.

Bailey, J., & Coombs, D. (1996). Effectiveness of an Indonesian model for rapid training of Guatemalan health workers in diarrhea case management. Journal of Community Health, 21(4), 269-276.

Bamisaiye, A., Olukoya, A., Ekunwe, E. O., & Abosede, O. A. (1989). A village health worker programme in Nigeria. World Health Forum, 10(3-4), 386-392.

Bang, A. T., Baitule, S. B., Reddy, H. M., Deshmukh, M. D., & Bang, R. A. (2005). Low birth weight and preterm neonates: can they be managed at home by mother and a trained village health worker? Journal of Perinatology: Official Journal of the California Perinatal Association, 25 Suppl 1, S72-81. doi: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211276

Bella, H., & Morley, D. (1983). The use of women's vocabulary in teaching primary health care. Lancet, 1(8325), 639-640.

Bender, D. E., & Pitkin, K. (1987). Bridging the gap: the village health worker as the cornerstone of the primary health care model. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 24(6), 515-528.

Benskin, L. (2009, June). Incorporating wound care in a Christian village health worker training program. Poster session presented at the 41st Annual Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. Journal of Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing, 36(3S), S39-40.

Berman, P. A. (1984). Village health workers in Java, Indonesia: coverage and equity. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 19(4), 411-422.

Berner, B. J. (1992). Provision of health care in a frontier setting: an Alaskan perspective. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 4(3), 89-94.

Brieger, W. R. (1996). Health education to promote community involvement in the control of tropical diseases. Acta Tropica, 61(2), 93-106.

Buhler-Wilkerson, K. (1993). Bringing care to the people: Lillian Wald's legacy to public health nursing. American Journal of Public Health, 83(12), 1778-1786.

Cairncross, S., Braide, E. I., & Bugri, S. Z. (1996). Community participation in the eradication of guinea worm disease. Acta Tropica, 61(2), 121-136.

Campbell, M., & Abu Sham, Z. (1995). Sudan: situational analysis of maternal health in Bara District, North Kordofan. World Health Statistics Quarterly. Rapport Trimestriel De Statistiques Sanitaires Mondiales, 48(1), 60-66.

Chevalier, C., Lapo, A., O'Brien, J., & Wierzba, T. F. (1993). Why do village health workers drop out? World Health Forum, 14(3), 258-261.

Clarke, M., Dick, J., & Bogg, L. (2006). Cost-effectiveness analysis of an alternative tuberculosis management strategy for permanent farm dwellers in South Africa amidst health service contraction. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 34(1), 83-91.

Clarke, M., Dick, J., Zwarenstein, M., Lombard, C. J., & Diwan, V. K. (2005). Lay health worker intervention with choice of DOT superior to standard TB care for farm dwellers in South Africa: a cluster randomised control trial. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease: The Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 9(6), 673-679.

Clutter, P. (2004). ProjectHelping Hands: medical mission organization increases educational focus with village health care provider seminar in Caranavi, Bolivia. Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN: Official Publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association, 30(5), A27-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2004.04.009

Colvin, M., Gumede, L., Grimwade, K., Maher, D., & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Contribution of traditional healers to a rural tuberculosis control programme in Hlabisa, South Africa. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease: The Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7(9 Suppl 1), S86-91.

Connell, C. M., & Crawford, C. O. (1988). How people obtain their health information–a survey in two Pennsylvania counties. Public Health Reports, 103(2), 189.

Cueva, M., Kuhnley, R., Lanier, A., & Dignan, M. (2006). Healing hearts: laughter and learning. Journal of Cancer Education: The Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 21(2), 104-107. doi: 10.1207/s15430154jce2102_14

Cueva, M., Lanier, A., Dignan, M., Kuhnley, R., & Jenkins, C. (2005). Cancer education for Community Health Aides/Practitioners (CHA/Ps) in Alaska assessing comfort with cancer. Journal of Cancer Education: The Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 20(2), 85-88. doi: 10.1207/s15430154jce2002_8

D'Alessandro, U., Olaleye, B., Langerock, P., Bennett, S., Cham, K., Cham, B., et al. (1997). The Gambian National Impregnated Bed Net Programme: evaluation of effectiveness by means of case-control studies. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 91(6), 638-642.

Das, J., & Das, S. (2003). Trust, learning, and vaccination: a case study of a North Indian village. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 57(1), 97-112.

DeCourtney, C. A., Jones, K., Merriman, M. P., Heavener, N., & Branch, P. K. (2003). Establishing a culturally sensitive palliative care program in rural Alaska Native American communities. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 6(3), 501-510. doi: 10.1089/109662103322144871

De Francisco, A., Schellenberg, J. A., Hall, A. J., Greenwood, A. M., Cham, K., & Greenwood, B. M. (1994). Comparison of mortality between villages with and without Primary Health Care workers in Upper River Division, The Gambia. The Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 97(2), 69-74.

de Wet, M., & Ackermann, L. (2000). Improving eye care in the primary health care setting. Curationis, 23(1), 36-42.

Diallo, I., McKeown, S., & Wone, I. (1996). Bamako boost for primary care. World Health Forum, 17(4), 382-385.

Dick, J., Clarke, M., Tibbs, J., & Schoeman, H. (1997). Combating tuberculosis--lessons learnt from a rural community project in the Klein Drakenstein area of the Western Cape. South African Medical Journal = Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif Vir Geneeskunde, 87(8 Suppl), 1042-1047.

Dick, J., Clarke, M., van Zyl, H., & Daniels, K. (2007). Primary health care nurses implement and evaluate a community outreach approach to health care in the South African agricultural sector. International Nursing Review, 54(4), 383-390.

Dick, & Henchie. (1998). A cost analysis of the tuberculosis control programme in Elsies River, Cape Town. South African Medical Journal = Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif Vir Geneeskunde, 88(3 Suppl), 380-383.

Dong, H., Bogg, L., Rehnberg, C., & Diwan, V. (1999). Health financing policies. Providers' opinions and prescribing behavior in rural China. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 15(4), 686-698.

Dudley, L., Azevedo, V., Grant, R., Schoeman, J. H., Dikweni, L., & Maher, D. (2003). Evaluation of community contribution to tuberculosis control in Cape Town, South Africa. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease: The Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7(9 Suppl 1), S48-55.

El Arifeen, S., Baqui, A. H., Victora, C. G., Black, R. E., Bryce, J., Hoque, D. M. E., et al. (2008). Sex and socioeconomic differentials in child health in rural Bangladesh: findings from a baseline survey for evaluating Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition, 26(1), 22-35.

Essex, B. (1980). A new approach to decision making in primary health care. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. Royal Society (Great Britain), 209(1174), 89-96.

Falbo, G., & Buzzetti, R. (2001). Homicide in children and adolescents: a case-control study in Recife, Brazil. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79(1), 2.

Farah, A. A., & Belhadj-el Ghouayel, H. (1994). Too many births, too many deaths. World Health Forum, 15(1), 78-81.

Finau, S. A., Taumoepeau, B., & To'a, L. (1986). Review of the village health worker pilot scheme in Tonga. The New Zealand Medical Journal, 99(807), 592-596.

Fourie, W. (1988). The village health worker in the Republic of Ciskei. Nursing RSA = Verpleging RSA, 3(10), 17-19.

Franks, A. J. (1983). Patterns of illness and the use of health services on a coral atoll--observations in Kiribati (Central Pacific). Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77(1), 68-72.

Fernández, M., Gonzales, A., Tortolero-Luna, G., Williams, J., Saavedra-Embesi, M., Chan, W., & Vernon, S. W. (2009). Effectiveness of Cultivando La Salud: a breast and cervical cancer screening promotion program for low-income Hispanic women. American Journal of Public Health, 99(5), 936-943.

Garner, P. (1989). The Bamako initiative. BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 299(6694), 277-278.

Greenwood, B. M. (1989). The microepidemiology of malaria and its importance to malaria control. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83 Suppl, 25-29.

Grubesic, R., & Selwyn, B. (2003). Vitamin A supplementation and health outcomes for children in Nepal. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 35(1), 15-20.

Habib, M., Mohamed, M. K., Abdel-Aziz, F., Magder, L. S., Abdel-Hamid, M., Gamil, F., . . . Sallam, I. (2001). Hepatitis C virus infection in a community in the Nile Delta: risk factors for seropositivity. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 33(1), 248-253. doi: 10.1053/jhep.2001.20797

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Heywood, P. F., & Harahap, N. P. (2009). Human resources for health at the district level in Indonesia: the smoke and mirrors of decentralization. Human Resources for Health, 7, 6. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-7-6

Hill, A. G., MacLeod, W. B., Joof, D., Gomez, P., & Walraven, G. (2000). Decline of mortality in children in rural Gambia: the influence of village-level primary health care. Tropical Medicine & International Health: TM & IH, 5(2), 107-118.

Hossain, S. M., Bhuiya, A., & Rasheed, S. (2001). Correlates of perceived malarial episodes and treatment-seeking behavior in a malaria-endemic rural area in Bangladesh. The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 32(4), 707-719.

Islam, A., Malik, F. A., & Basaria, S. (2002). Strengthening primary health care and family planning services in Pakistan: some critical issues. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 52(1), 2-7.

Jajoo, U. N. (1992). Risk-sharing in rural health care. World Health Forum, 13(2-3), 171-175.

Jaravaza, V. S., McCoy, M. C., & Dando, B. C. (1982). Unified National Health Information System. Part II. The Village Health Worker Health Information System. The Central African Journal of Medicine, 28(3), 57-65.

Kash, B., May, M., & Tai-Seale, M. (2007). Community health worker training and certification programs in the United States: findings from a national survey. Health Policy, 80(1), 32-42.

Kelly, J. (1998). Continuing medical education for community health aides/practitioners. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 57 Suppl 1, 100-102.

Kelly, J., Osamba, B., Garg, R., Hamel, M., Lewis, J., Rowe, S., . . . Deming, M. S. (2001). Community health worker performance in the management of multiple childhood illnesses: Siaya District, Kenya, 1997-2001. American Journal of Public Health, 91(10), 1617-1624.

Kironde, S., & Bajunirwe, F. (2002). Lay workers in directly observed treatment (DOT) programmes for tuberculosis in high burden settings: Should they be paid? A review of behavioural perspectives. African Health Sciences, 2(2), 73-78.

Kokesh, J., Ferguson, A. S., Patricoski, C., Koller, K., Zwack, G., Provost, E., & Holck, P. (2008). Digital images for postsurgical follow-up of tympanostomy tubes in remote Alaska. Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery: Official Journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 139(1), 87-93. doi: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.04.008

Konradsen, F., Amerasinghe, P. H., Perera, D., Van der Hoek, W., & Amerasinghe, F. P. (2000). A village treatment center for malaria: community response in Sri Lanka. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 50(6), 879-889.

Kuhn, L., & Zwarenstein, M. (1990). Evaluation of a village health worker programme: the use of village health worker retained records. International Journal of Epidemiology, 19(3), 685-692.

Landon, B., Loudon, J., Selle, M., & Doucette, S. (2004). Factors influencing the retention and attrition of community health aides/practitioners in Alaska. The Journal of Rural Health: Official Journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, 20(3), 221-230.

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Leonard, K. L., Adelman, S. W., & Essam, T. (2009). Idle chatter or learning? Evidence of social learning about clinicians and the health system from rural Tanzania. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 69(2), 183-190. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.020

Lee, W., Stoeckel, J., Jintaganont, P., Romanarak, T., & Kullavanijaya, S. (1991). The impact of a community based health education program on the incidence of diarrheal disease in southern Thailand. The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 22(4), 548-556.