Search Results - "Stansert Katzen, Linnea"
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Empowerment strategies of the Mentor Mother peer support program among mothers who have migrated to Sweden: a photovoice study
Published in BMC public health (16-07-2024)“…A peer support intervention using 'Mentor Mothers' was implemented for mothers who had migrated to Sweden, living in socially disadvantaged communities. The…”
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The effect of supervision on community health workers' effectiveness with households in rural South Africa: A cluster randomized controlled trial
Published in PLoS medicine (02-03-2023)“…Community health workers (CHWs) can supplement professional medical providers, especially in rural settings where resources are particularly scarce. Yet,…”
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Home visits by community health workers in rural South Africa have a limited, but important impact on maternal and child health in the first two years of life
Published in BMC health services research (29-06-2020)“…More than 50% of Africa's population lives in rural areas, which have few professional health workers. South Africa has adopted task shifting health care to…”
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From the periphery to inclusion within the health system: promoting community health worker empowerment as a way forward
Published in BMC family practice (26-07-2024)“…Community health worker programmes have the potential to contribute critically towards universal health coverage. However, CHWs globally have often continued…”
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'Community health workers are unable to work because they don't have supervisors' - mid-level providers' experiences of a CHW program in rural South Africa
Published in Rural and remote health (01-08-2023)“…The World Health Organization has called for more than 4 million community health workers (CHWs) globally; yet there are gaps in the evidence of CHWs' impact…”
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Critical life course interventions for children and adolescents to promote mental health
Published in Global mental health (2023)“…Abstract Childhood and adolescence are key developmental periods in the life course for addressing mental health, and there is ample evidence to support…”
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Community health workers' experiences of supervision in maternal and child health programmes in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A qualitative evidence synthesis
Published in Health & social care in the community (01-11-2022)“…Maternal and child health programmes often use Community Health Workers (CHWs) to help address poor access to health care, particularly in low‐ and…”
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Are we listening to community health workers? Experiences of the community health worker journey in rural South Africa
Published in Research in nursing & health (01-06-2022)“…Access to healthcare in developing countries remains a challenge. As a result, task‐shifting to community health workers (CHWs) is increasingly used to…”
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Community health workers impact on maternal and child health outcomes in rural South Africa - a non-randomized two-group comparison study
Published in BMC public health (17-09-2020)“…Home visits by paraprofessional community health workers (CHWs) has been shown to improve maternal and child health outcomes in research studies in many…”
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Maternal and child health outcomes in rural South African mothers living with and without HIV
Published in AIDS care (02-04-2020)“…In the era of widespread antiretroviral therapy (ART), consequences of being HIV-exposed is unclear for children, especially in rural communities. A population…”
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A longitudinal cohort study of rural adolescent vs adult South African mothers and their children from birth to 24 months
Published in BMC pregnancy and childbirth (11-01-2019)“…Adolescent motherhood has been repeatedly linked to poor child outcomes in high income countries and urban areas in low- and middle-income countries. We…”
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Community health worker home visiting in deeply rural South Africa: 12-month outcomes
Published in Global public health (02-11-2021)“…Home visiting by community health workers (CHW) improves child outcomes in efficacy trials, there is however limited evidence of impact evaluating CHW…”
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Implementing a social innovation for community-based peer support for immigrant mothers in Sweden: a mixed-methods process evaluation
Published in Frontiers in public health (2024)“…A South African social innovation based on peer support for mothers was contextualized in southern Sweden. The objective of the project was to support…”
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The effect of supervision on community health workers' effectiveness with households in rural South Africa: A cluster randomized controlled trial
Published in PLoS medicine (01-03-2023)“…BackgroundCommunity health workers (CHWs) can supplement professional medical providers, especially in rural settings where resources are particularly scarce…”
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'Community health workers are unable to work because they don't have supervisors' - mid level providers' experiences of a VHW program in rural South Africa
Published in Rural and remote health (01-09-2023)“…Introduction: The World Health Organization has called for more than 4 million community health workers (CHWs) globally; yet there are gaps in the evidence of…”
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Perinatal maternal depression in rural South Africa: Child outcomes over the first two years
Published in Journal of affective disorders (15-03-2019)“…•16% of mothers report depressed mood in the rural Eastern Cape of South Africa.•Perinatal depressed mood was associated with low income and interpersonal…”
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Maternal and child health outcomes in rural South Africa mothers living with and without HIV
Published in AIDS care (22-10-2019)“…In the era of widespread antiretroviral therapy (ART), consequences of being HIV-exposed is unclear for children, especially in rural communities. A population…”
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