The General Responsibilities of Community Health Worker
To support the effectively community health work sustainability, we should consideration about what community health worker do with villagers to improve environmental health in their community. How community health worker mobilize the existing resources to support and what action plan to be taken. Given the general role and responsibility of Community Health Worker (CHW) and the different work experiences in the field with reviewing the literature related to CHW, there are some finding on roles and responsibilities of CHW as following explanation.
• Community Health Worker (CHW) is very important in the community. To select CHW we should find out who trained about the primary health care, who contributed the time to help the community. CHW is able to mobilize the local resources to support their community health issues.
• Community Health Worker (CHW) can make a valuable contribution to community development aspect such as lead the meeting; lead community members to make the action plan, in particularly, CHW can improve access to community activities with basic health services provision. For example, CHWs can carry out actions plan that lead to improved community health outcomes in the field of child healthcare to be substantial community health impact.
• Community Health Worker (CHW) is to provide access to health care for under-served populations. There are a lot of program implemented in the community but some have failed in the past due to unrealistic expectations, poor planning and an underestimation of the effort and input required to make them work.
• Community Health Worker (CHW) is to understand the concept of community ownership and community development aspect and actively contribution the participation in the community activities especially, community action plan. CHW should have the ability to mobilize the community existing resources. Examples of successful programs can thus be found in community mobilization activities.
• CHW is dynamics of community participation and better understanding and discussing the future of community health programs. But sometimes CHW faced challenges institutionalizing and mainstreaming community participation in health services to sustain social participation. This means that community participation.
• Community Health Worker (CHW) should be volunteers or partially paid in some cases, because it is sustained for long term period. In some cases, considering the poor family, they expected and needed an income for support the family. Although in many programs they are expected to spend only a small amount of time on their health-related duties.
• The reality the issue of community financing which reflected to failures of community health activity action plan because of no care for the poor living in different areas. So it is also reflected that there is a lot lesson learn and there is a lot we do know about making programs work effectively such as appropriate selection, continuing education, involvement of health service to community.
The community health worker play an important role in supporting their community members to access the health service, and lead the community to discuss the action plan. CHW also help to educate the health issues and conduct the community awareness raising about how to improve the environmental health in the community. Therefore we appreciated them in playing role in improvement the situation of their community and we respected the time and their contribution to support community.
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