Article and Country | Type of CHW | CHW intervention | Study design and overall quality | Equity Stratifier |
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(Atkinson & Haran, 2005); Brazil | Community Health Worker | Comprehensive family health programme, including CHW component (not well explained) | Cross-sectional household survey; High | Quality – Place of residence - |
(Baqui et al., 2009); Bangladesh | Community Health Worker | Maternal and Neonatal health programme with CHW treatment for neonatal infections in intervention areas | Cluster randomised controlled trial; High | Access – Socio-economic status (SES) + |
Utilisation – SES + | ||||
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
(Baqui et al., 2008); India | Community Health Worker | NGO facilitation of government Maternal and child health programme | Controlled before and after study; High | Empowerment – SES + |
(Bell, Go, Miguel, Parks, & Bryan, 2005); Philippines | Village health worker | Malaria control and case management, community education and bednet distribution | Cross-sectional household survey (including villages with and without resident VHW); Medium | Access - Place of residence - |
Access – Education – | ||||
Access – SES- | ||||
Utilisation – Place of residence – | ||||
Utilisation – Gender + | ||||
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
Utilisation – Social capital - | ||||
(Callaghan-Koru et al., 2013); Malawi | Health Surveillance Assistant | Maternal and newborn health programme, including antenatal and postnatal home visits by HSA | Before and after study, with no comparison; High | Access – SES - |
Utilisation – SES ? | ||||
Empowerment – SES + | ||||
(Dalal et al., 2013) Kenya | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling Programme | Longitudinal study; Medium | Utilisation – Gender - |
Utilisation – Age + | ||||
Utilisation – Place of residence - | ||||
(DasGupta, Mansuri, Nistha, & Vishwanath, 2007) Pakistan | Lady health worker | Maternal and neonatal health programme offering health and family planning services | Cross-sectional study (used data from Pakistan Integrated Household Survey); Low | Access – Education - |
Utilisation – Gender + | ||||
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
(Fort, Grembowski, Heagerty, Lim, & Mercer, 2012) Guatemala | Community Nurse Auxilliary | Comprehensive family health programme | Longitudinal prospective cohort; Medium | Utilisation – Language + |
Utilisation- Education ? | ||||
Utilisation – Place of residence - | ||||
Utilisation – risk + | ||||
Utilisation – SES + | ||||
Utilisation – Age | ||||
Utilisation – Religion – | ||||
Utilisation – Family type – | ||||
Utilisation – Occupation + | ||||
Quality – Age - | ||||
Quality – Language + | ||||
Quality – Education + | ||||
(Fylkesnes et al., 2013); Zambia | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling programme | Cluster randomised controlled trial; High | Utilisation – Education + |
Utilisation – Gender + | ||||
Utilisation – Age + | ||||
(Hasegawa, Yasuoka, Ly, Nguon, & Jimba, 2013); Cambodia | Village malaria worker | Child health programme providing malaria case management and child health services | Cross-sectional study; High | Utilisation – Place of residence + |
(- those over 25Â km away) | ||||
Utilisation – SES + | ||||
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
Utilisation – Age + | ||||
Utilisation – Occupation + | ||||
(Helleringer, Kohler, Frimpong, & Mkandawire, 2009); Malawi | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling survey | Cross-sectional study; Medium | Utilisation – SES + |
Utilisation – Age + | ||||
Utilisation – Gender - | ||||
Utilisation – Marital status - | ||||
Utilisation – Education - | ||||
(Hossain, Khuda, & Phillips, 2004) Bangladesh | Female Welfare Assistant | Family Planning programme | Retrospective re-analysis of longitudinal data; Low | Access – Place of residence – Quality- |
(Kamiya, Yoshimura, & Islam, 2013) Bangladesh | Family Welfare Volunteer | Maternal and neonatal health programme, including community mobilisation through community support groups | Controlled, non-randomised before and after study; High | Utilisation - SES + (non CHW-) |
Self Help Group | ||||
(Katabarwa et al., 2010); Uganda | Community distributors | Onchocerciasis control using kinship enhanced delivery model | Controlled cross-sectional study (kinship vs non-kinship); High | Access – Social capital - |
Quality – Social capital – | ||||
Empowerment – Social capital + | ||||
(Kisia et al., 2012) Kenya | Community Health Worker | Malaria case management for children under 5 years | Before and after study, no comparison; High | Utilisation – SES + |
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
Utilisation – Village size - | ||||
Utilisation – Age + | ||||
Utilisation – Household size + | ||||
(Littrell, Moukam, Libite, Youmba, & Baugh, 2013) Cameroon | Community Health Worker | Community Case Management for children under 5 years | Quasi-experimental study, with comparison group; High | Utilisation – SES + |
(Matovu et al., 2005); Uganda | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling survey | Cross-sectional survey; Medium | Utilisation – Age + |
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
Utilisation - Gender + | ||||
Utilisation – Marital status + | ||||
(Anthony K Mbonye, Bygbjerg, & Magnussen, 2007); Ugandaa | Mixed | Intermittent presumptive treatment malaria in pregnancy provided by a range of community based providers | Before after with comparison | Utilisation – Age |
Qualitative study; High | Utilisation – Place of residence | |||
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
(A K Mbonye, Schultz Hansen, Bygbjerg, & Magnussen, 2008) Uganda a | Mixed | Intermittent presumptive treatment malaria in pregnancy | Before after with comparison; Medium | Utilisation – Age - |
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
Utilisation – Occupation + | ||||
Utilisation – Place of residence + | ||||
Utilisation – Marital status + | ||||
(Mukanga et al., 2012); Uganda | Community Health Worker | Community Case Management for pneumonia and fever | Cross-sectional survey; High | Access – Place of residence + |
Utilisation – Place of residence + | ||||
Utilisation - Education - + | ||||
Utilisation – SES + | ||||
Utilisation – Occupation + | ||||
(Mulogo, Abdulaziz, Guerra, & Baine, 2011) Uganda | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling | Longitudinal study with cross sectional and investigative phases; High | Utilisation – Gender – |
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
Utilisation – Place of residence + | ||||
Utilisation – Marital status – | ||||
Utilisation – SES - | ||||
(Mumtaz et al., 2013); Pakistan | Lady health worker | Maternal and child health programme providing door step family planning, antenatal and child health services | Cross-sectional study | Access – Social capital - |
Qualitative study; High | Access – SES + | |||
Quality – Social capital - | ||||
(Mutale, Michelo, Jürgensen, & Fylkesnes, 2010) Zambia | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling | Cross-sectional study; Medium | Utilisation – Place of residence + |
Utilisation – Gender + | ||||
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
Access – Age + | ||||
(Naik, Tabana, Doherty, Zembe, & Jackson, 2012); South Africa | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling | Cluster randomised trial with comparison, comparing home based HTC with facility based; High | Utilisation – Gender - |
Utilisation – Age + | ||||
(Nsungwa-Sabiiti et al., 2007); Uganda | Drug distributor | Malaria case management and malaria counselling | Quasi-experimental before after study with comparison group; Medium | Utilisation – SES - |
Utilisation –Gender + | ||||
Utilisation – Education + | ||||
(Onwujekwe, Ojukwu, Shu, & Uzochukwu, 2007) Nigeria | Community Health Worker | Malaria case management | Before after study, no comparison; Medium | Access – SES – |
Access – Number household residents – | ||||
Access – Age - | ||||
Utilisation – SES - | ||||
Quality – SES - | ||||
(Perry, King-Schultz, Aftab, & Bryant, 2007); Haiti | Animatrice | General health programme involving household peer to peer education | Cross-sectional study | Access – Place of residence – |
Matrons | Exit interview; Low | |||
Health Agents | ||||
Monitrices | ||||
(Quayyum et al., 2013); Bangladesh | Shasthaya Shebika Shasthya Kormi | Maternal and neonatal health programme providing maternal health services and education at home | Quasi-experimental, before after study with comparison area; High | Utilisation – SES + (non CHW +/-) |
Newborn Health workers | ||||
(Quinley & Govindasamy, 2007); Nepal | Female Community Health Volunteer | Child health (no details provided) | Cross-sectional study (additional analysis of Demographic Health Survey data); Low | Utilisation – SES - |
Utilisation – Place of residence + | ||||
(Siekmans et al., 2013); Kenya | Community Health Worker | Malaria case management for under fives | Before after study, no comparison area; High | Access – SES + |
Utilisation – SES + | ||||
Empowerment – SES + | ||||
(D. O. Simba, 2005) Tanzania b | Community based distributor | Family Planning provision of contraceptives and information of sexual and reproductive health | Descriptive cross-sectional study; Medium | Utilisation – Age - |
Utilisation – Occupation + | ||||
Utilisation - Gender + | ||||
Utilisation – Religion + | ||||
Utilisation – SES + | ||||
Quality – SES – | ||||
Empowerment – SES + | ||||
(D. Simba, Schuemer, Forrester, & Hiza, 2011); Tanzaniab | Community Based Agent | Family Planning provision of contraceptives and information of sexual and reproductive health | Cross-sectional descriptive study; Low | Utilisation – Place of residence + |
Quality – SES + | ||||
(Wolff et al., 2005) Uganda | Counsellor | Home Based Testing and Counselling | Repeated cross-sectional study | Utilisation – Age + |
Qualitative study; Medium | Utilisation – Gender + | |||
(Wringe et al., 2008); Tanzania | Counsellor | Voluntary Counselling and Testing offered at purpose built hut following household questionnaire | Repeated cross-sectional study; High | Utilisation – Gender - |
Utilisation – Education - | ||||
Utilisation – Religion - | ||||
Utilisation – Race - | ||||
Utilisation – Place of residence – | ||||
Utilisation – Age - |