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Filling an Evaluation Gap: A Framework for Evaluating Community Health Worker Programs

Public health practitioners can use this flexible framework to guide the evaluation of the process and outcomes of a Community Health Worker (CHW) program. Facilitating evaluation of community health worker programs Evaluation is key to improving public health programs and maximizing program effectiveness. Public health professionals, however, do not always have the time, skills, or resources to design and conduct

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Lessons Learned Through the Implementation of a Large-Scale COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program

The integration of COVID-19 contact tracing (CT) with support services may have improved cases’ adherence with isolation guidelines and diminish pandemic-related hardships. Despite this, the timing of CT relative to infectiousness and difficulty eliciting non-household contacts may have attenuated the intervention’s effect. Case investigation and contact tracing (CI/CT) programs were widely implemented during the first years of the COVID-19 epidemic

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