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. 2024 Mar 11;25:82. doi: 10.1186/s12875-024-02319-2

Table 2.

The roles of CHWs based on promotive, preventive, and curative classification

Classification Number of articles Roles
Promotive 42 Health promotion and education such as campaign and counselling (trusted sources of health information).
Community mobilisation, empowerment.
Preventive 36 Health status monitoring, such as child growth and pregnant women.
Provision of immunisation, contraception, vitamin A, and iron.
Health screening, early detection (rapid test).
Tracing, surveillance.
Referrals.
Supervision for patient treatment (monitoring medication adherence), follow up cases.
Curative 23 Provision of medical treatment (iCCM, malaria program).

Abrreviations: iCCM, integrated Community Case management