Henry B Perry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2569195 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Henry B Perry |
| PRENOMES | Henry B |
| SOBRENOME | Perry |
| ASSINATURA | PERRY H B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0561-0492 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Resolving the vertical versus horizontal conundrum
Building on the experience of the community health worker (CHW) program at BRAC, the largest NGO in Bangladesh and also in the world, as well as on the experience of other successful CHW programs, a “next generation” of CHW programs is being envisioned in which a CHW would visit every home every month. Among many other activities they would carry out, CHWs would screen for symptoms of TB, obtain sputum specimens that would be collected by a super…
Comparing apples with apples
This paper proposes a taxonomy for Community Health Workers (CHWs) and others engaged in front-line community health activities, encompassing formally-employed workers extending government primary health care (PHC) service delivery as well as a range of other actors with roles at the nexus of government PHC and communities. The taxonomy is grounded in current definitions from the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization,…
Strategies for Sustained Empowerment of Community Health Workers
To understand the core aspects of an empowerment-based Community Health Worker (CHW) training program, we studied the model of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) in Jamkhed, India-an organization known for facilitating empowerment of women as Village Health Workers (VHWs) and agents of community change. We define empowerment as a means by which individuals gain health and development-related skills and knowledge to facilitate positive …
Voting with their feet
Expanding networks of government primary health centers (PHCs) to bring health services closer to communities is a longstanding policy objective in LMICs. In pluralistic health systems, where public and private providers compete for patients, PHCs are often not the preferred source for care. This study analyzes the market for primary care services in the Indian state of Bihar to understand how choice of primary care provider is influenced by dist…
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
The Project Area in which Curamericas/Guatemala implemented the CBIO+ Approach experienced a reduction in the prevalence of stunting and other measures of undernutrition in under-2 children. Given the burden of undernutrition in Guatemala and other parts of the world, this approach merits broader application and further evaluation
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
Through increased theoretical and practical knowledge about important maternal and child health matters and through the social experience of obtaining this knowledge and sharing it with other community members, participation in the Care Group Approach empowered participants to make positive health behavior changes for themselves and for their children and families. This, in turn, led many participants to become more engaged in community activitie…
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
The Birthing Centers were able to resolve almost one-half of the peripartum complications and to promptly refer almost all of the others to a higher level of care, resulting in a maternal mortality ratio less than half that for all Indigenous Guatemalan women. This is the first study we are aware of that analyzes the management of obstetrical complications in such a setting. Barriers to providing high-quality maternity care, including obtaining c…
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
The CBIO+ Approach and its implementation by Curamericas/Guatemala was overall embraced by local staff. By eliciting feedback while the project was ongoing, actionable areas for improvement were identified
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
CBIO+ is an approach that has been effective in engaging communities in the process of improving the health of their mothers and children and in reducing health inequities in this marginalized, difficult-to-reach population of Indigenous Maya people. The CBIO+ Approach is cost-effective and merits further development and broader application in Guatemala and beyond
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
This community-based Project has been effective in quickly achieving marked improvements in indicators for interventions that are important for the health of mothers and children. These achievements are notable in view of the challenging context in which the Project was implemented
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
The Project achieved some notable improvements in women's decision-making autonomy and participation in community activities. These improvements often translated into making decisions to practice recommended health behaviors. Traditional cultural norms and the barriers to accessing needed health services are not easily overcome, even when empowerment strategies are effective
Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas
The baseline maternal mortality ratio is one of the highest in the Western hemisphere. There is strong evidence of a decline in maternal mortality in the Project Area. The evidence of a decline in neonatal and under-5 mortality is less robust. Childhood pneumonia and neonatal conditions were the leading causes of under-5 mortality. Expanding access to evidence-based community-based interventions for (1) prevention of postpartum hemorrhage, (2) ho…
Improving quality of non-communicable disease services at primary care facilities in middle-income countries
Evidence on the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving HIV/Aids outcomes for mothers and children in low- and middle-income countries
Piloting a participatory, community-based health information system for strengthening community-based health services
BACKGROUND: Although community engagement has been promoted as a strategy for health systems strengthening, there is need for more evidence for effectiveness of this approach. We describe an operations research (OR) Study and assessment of one form of community engagement, the development and implementation of a participatory community-based health information system (PCBHIS), in slum communities in Freetown, Sierra Leone. METHODS: A child surviv…
Engaging communities in collecting and using results from verbal autopsies for child deaths
Conducting VAs as a collaborative process with communities is challenging but can provide valuable data that can be used for local-level decision-making. The findings have practical implications for engaging the community and CHWs in reducing the number of these preventable deaths through expanded efforts at prevention, early and appropriate treatment, and reduction of barriers to care-seeking. A functional end-to-end VA system can enhance meanin…
Accompanimeter 1.0
The Accompanimeter 1.0 can serve as a helpful tool for CHW program implementation and policy decisions that maximize system-side inputs, community engagement, and support for individuals with medical issues
The Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project and the Alma-Ata Vision of Primary Health Care
The Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project (Jamkhed CRHP) was established in central India in 1970. The Jamkhed CRHP approach, developed by Rajanikant and Mabelle Arole, was instrumental in influencing the concepts and principles embedded in the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata. The Jamkhed CRHP pioneered provision of services close to people’s homes, use of health teams (including community workers), community engagement, integration of services…
Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes
Optimising community health worker (CHW) programmes requires evidence-based policies on their education, deployment, and management. This guideline aims to inform efforts by planners, policy makers, and managers to improve CHW programmes as part of an integrated approach to strengthen primary health care and health systems. The development of this guideline followed the standard WHO approach to developing global guidelines. We conducted one overv…
What do we know about community-based health worker programs? A systematic review of existing reviews on community health workers
The Lives of Community Health Workers
Reviewed by: The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia by Kenneth Maes Henry B. Perry Kenneth Maes. The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia. New York: Routledge, 2017. xv + 171 pp. Ill. $44.95 (978-1-61132-361-0). National experiences with community health workers (CHWs) and evidence about their effectiveness in improving the health of populations is growi…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: The contributions that community-based primary health care (CBPHC) and engaging with communities as valued partners can make to the improvement of maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) is not widely appreciated. This unfortunate reality is one of the reasons why so few priority countries failed to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015. This article provides a summary of a series of articles about the eff…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: We summarize the findings of assessments of projects, programs, and research studies (collectively referred to as projects) included in a larger review of the effectiveness of community-based primary health care (CBPHC) in improving maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH). Findings on neonatal and child health are reported elsewhere in this series. METHODS: We searched PUBMED and other databases through December 2015, and included …
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: As the number of deaths among children younger than 5 years of age continues to decline globally through programs to address the health of older infants, neonatal mortality is becoming an increasingly large proportion of under-5 deaths. Lack of access to safe delivery care, emergency obstetric care and postnatal care continue to be challenges for reducing neonatal mortality. This article reviews the available evidence regarding the ef…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: The degree to which investments in health programs improve the health of the most disadvantaged segments of the population-where utilization of health services and health status is often the worst-is a growing concern throughout the world. Therefore, questions about the degree to which community-based primary health care (CBPHC) can or actually does improve utilization of health services and the health status of the most disadvantaged…
Attaining health for all through community partnerships
Voting with their feet
Expanding networks of government primary health centers (PHCs) to bring health services closer to communities is a longstanding policy objective in LMICs. In pluralistic health systems, where public and private providers compete for patients, PHCs are often not the preferred source for care. This study analyzes the market for primary care services in the Indian state of Bihar to understand how choice of primary care provider is influenced by dist…
Reducing under-five mortality through Hopital Albert Schweitzer's integrated system in Haiti
BACKGROUND: The degree to which local health systems contribute to reductions in under-five mortality in severely impoverished settings has not been well documented. The current study compares the under-five mortality in the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) Primary Health Care Service Area with that for Haiti in general. HAS provides an integrated system of community-based primary health care services, hospital care and community development. METH…
The Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project and the Alma-Ata Vision of Primary Health Care
The Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project (Jamkhed CRHP) was established in central India in 1970. The Jamkhed CRHP approach, developed by Rajanikant and Mabelle Arole, was instrumental in influencing the concepts and principles embedded in the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata. The Jamkhed CRHP pioneered provision of services close to people’s homes, use of health teams (including community workers), community engagement, integration of services…
First Steps in Initiating an Effective Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program in Urban Slums
Long-Term Reductions in Mortality Among Children Under Age 5 in Rural Haiti
Objectives. Evidence regarding the long-term impact of health and other community development programs on under-5 mortality (the risk of death from birth until the fifth birthday) is limited. We compared mortality in a population served by health and other community development programs at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) with national mortality rates among children younger than 5 years for Haiti between 1958 and 1999. Methods. We collected in…
Physician Assistants
This article describes the background characteristics, work environments, and job characteristics of the physician assistant profession as they existed in late 1974 and early 1975. Of the 939 physician assistants participating in this study, three-fourths were working in primary care specialties and half were located in communities having fewer than 50,000 persons. Favorable levels of responsibility for patient care, supervisory support, and role…
The job satisfaction of physician assistants
Rural Health Care in Bolivia
Eighty percent of Bolivians live in rural areas. However, because of a lack of resources and an urban / curative health sector orientation, rural primary health care services are woefully inadequate. Consequently, Bolivia has the worst health conditions of any of the Latin American countries. The broader factors which underlie Bolivia's poor health conditions, such as the low standard of living and impediments to socioeconomic development, are re…
Attaining health for all through community partnerships
Assessing the causes of under-five mortality in the Albert Schweitzer Hospital service area of rural Haiti
In the Albert Schweitzer Hospital program area--and presumably in other areas of Haiti as well--priority needs to be given to the prevention of and the early, effective treatment of ALRI, diarrhea, and early neonatal conditions. This study points to the need for more, similar standardized assessments to guide local, regional, and national programs
Reducing under-five mortality through Hopital Albert Schweitzer's integrated system in Haiti
BACKGROUND: The degree to which local health systems contribute to reductions in under-five mortality in severely impoverished settings has not been well documented. The current study compares the under-five mortality in the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) Primary Health Care Service Area with that for Haiti in general. HAS provides an integrated system of community-based primary health care services, hospital care and community development. METH…
Health equity issues at the local level
These findings indicate that local health programs need to give attention to monitoring the health status as well as the quality and coverage of basic services among marginalized groups within the program service area. Health inequities will not be overcome until such monitoring occurs and leaders of health programs ensure that inequities identified are addressed in the local programming of activities. It is quite likely that, within relatively s…
Long-Term Reductions in Mortality Among Children Under Age 5 in Rural Haiti
Objectives. Evidence regarding the long-term impact of health and other community development programs on under-5 mortality (the risk of death from birth until the fifth birthday) is limited. We compared mortality in a population served by health and other community development programs at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) with national mortality rates among children younger than 5 years for Haiti between 1958 and 1999. Methods. We collected in…
Community participation
Community Health Workers in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries
Over the past half-century, community health workers (CHWs) have been a growing force for extending health care and improving the health of populations. Following their introduction in the 1970s, many large-scale CHW programs declined during the 1980s, but CHW programs throughout the world more recently have seen marked growth. Research and evaluations conducted predominantly during the past two decades offer compelling evidence that CHWs are cri…
Mitigation of non-communicable diseases in developing countries with community health workers
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rapidly becoming priorities in developing countries. While developed countries are more prepared in terms of skilled human resources for NCD management, developing the required human resources is still a challenge in developing countries. In this context, mobilizing community health workers (CHWs) for control of NCDs seems promising. With proper training, supervision and logistical support, CHWs can participat…
Evaluation of the effectiveness of care groups in expanding population coverage of Key child survival interventions and reducing under-5 mortality
Our findings suggest that Care Groups may provide a promising approach to significantly increase key child survival interventions and increase reductions in U5MR. Evaluations of child survival programs should be a top priority in global health to build a greater evidence base for effective approaches for program delivery
First Steps in Initiating an Effective Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program in Urban Slums
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: The contributions that community-based primary health care (CBPHC) and engaging with communities as valued partners can make to the improvement of maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) is not widely appreciated. This unfortunate reality is one of the reasons why so few priority countries failed to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015. This article provides a summary of a series of articles about the eff…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: We summarize the findings of assessments of projects, programs, and research studies (collectively referred to as projects) included in a larger review of the effectiveness of community-based primary health care (CBPHC) in improving maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH). Findings on neonatal and child health are reported elsewhere in this series. METHODS: We searched PUBMED and other databases through December 2015, and included …
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: As the number of deaths among children younger than 5 years of age continues to decline globally through programs to address the health of older infants, neonatal mortality is becoming an increasingly large proportion of under-5 deaths. Lack of access to safe delivery care, emergency obstetric care and postnatal care continue to be challenges for reducing neonatal mortality. This article reviews the available evidence regarding the ef…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: The degree to which investments in health programs improve the health of the most disadvantaged segments of the population-where utilization of health services and health status is often the worst-is a growing concern throughout the world. Therefore, questions about the degree to which community-based primary health care (CBPHC) can or actually does improve utilization of health services and the health status of the most disadvantaged…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: Community-based primary health care (CBPHC) is an approach used by health programs to extend preventive and curative health services beyond health facilities into communities and even down to households. Evidence of the effectiveness of CBPHC in improving maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) has been summarized by others, but our review gives particular attention to not only the effectiveness of specific interventions but also t…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence about the long-term effectiveness of integrated community-based primary health care (CBPHC) in improving maternal, neonatal and child health. However, the interventions implemented and the approaches used by projects with such evidence can provide guidance for ending preventable child and maternal deaths by the year 2030. METHODS: A database of 700 assessments of the effectiveness of CBPHC in improving matern…
Expanding the population coverage of evidence–based interventions with community health workers to save the lives of mothers and children
BACKGROUND: Evidence has been accumulating that community health workers (CHWs) providing evidence-based interventions as part of community-based primary health care (CBPHC) can lead to reductions in maternal, neonatal and child mortality. However, investments to strengthen and scale-up CHW programs still remain modest. METHODS: We used the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to estimate the number of maternal, neonatal and child deaths and stillbirths that …
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 4. child health findings Background This paper assesses the effectiveness of communitybased primary health care (CBPHC) in improving child health beyond the neonatal period. Although there has been an accelerated decline in global under-5 mortality since 2000, mortality rates remain high in much…
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
BACKGROUND: As part of our review of the evidence of the effectiveness of community-based primary health care (CBPHC) in improving maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH), we summarize here the common delivery strategies of projects, programs and field research studies (collectively referred to as projects) that have demonstrated effectiveness in improving child mortality. Other articles in this series address specifically the effects of CBPHC…
Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes
Optimising community health worker (CHW) programmes requires evidence-based policies on their education, deployment, and management. This guideline aims to inform efforts by planners, policy makers, and managers to improve CHW programmes as part of an integrated approach to strengthen primary health care and health systems. The development of this guideline followed the standard WHO approach to developing global guidelines. We conducted one overv…
What do we know about community-based health worker programs? A systematic review of existing reviews on community health workers
The Lives of Community Health Workers
Reviewed by: The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia by Kenneth Maes Henry B. Perry Kenneth Maes. The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia. New York: Routledge, 2017. xv + 171 pp. Ill. $44.95 (978-1-61132-361-0). National experiences with community health workers (CHWs) and evidence about their effectiveness in improving the health of populations is growi…
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