Caroline Whidden

Dados Biográficos

ID7753124
NOMECaroline Whidden
PRENOMESCaroline
SOBRENOMEWhidden
ASSINATURAWHIDDEN C
AFILIAÇÕESMali-Folkecenter
ORCID0000-0003-0570-4632
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR8
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of proactive home visits compared with site-based community health worker care on antenatal care outcomes in Mali

    Open AccessOsondu Ogbuoji, Minahil Shahid et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: Despite recommendations from the WHO, antenatal care (ANC) coverage remains low in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Community health workers (CHWs) can play an important role in expanding ANC coverage through pregnancy identification, provision of health education, screening for complications, delivery of therapeutic care and referral to higher levels of care. However, despite the success of CHW programmes in var…

  • Community case management to accelerate access to healthcare in Mali

    Open AccessCaroline Whidden, Amadou Cissé et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    The Proactive Community Case Management (ProCCM) trial in Mali reinforced the health system across both arms with user fee removal, professional community health workers (CHWs) and upgraded primary health centres (PHCs)—and randomized village-clusters to receive proactive home visits by CHWs (intervention) or fixed site-based services by passive CHWs (control). Across both arms, sick children’s 24-hour treatment and pregnant women’s four or more …

  • Effect of community health worker home visits on antenatal care and institutional delivery

    Open AccessKassoum Kayentao, Rakesh Ghosh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Though community health workers (CHWs) have improved access to antenatal care (ANC) and institutional delivery in different settings, it is unclear what package and delivery strategy maximises impact. METHODS: This study reports a secondary aim of the Proactive Community Case Management cluster randomised trial, conducted between December 2016 and April 2020 in Mali. It evaluated whether proactive home visits can improve ANC access …

  • Effects of proactive vs fixed community health care delivery on child health and access to care

    Open AccessCaroline Whidden, Kassoum Kayentao et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2023

    Background: Professional community health workers (CHWs) can help achieve universal health coverage, although evidence gaps remain on how to optimise CHW service delivery. We conducted an unblinded, parallel, cluster randomised trial in rural Mali to determine whether proactive CHW delivery reduced mortality and improved access to health care among children under five years, compared to passive delivery. Here we report the secondary access endpoi…

  • Lessons from an eight-country community health data harmonization collaborative

    Open AccessMadeleine Ballard, Helen Elizabeth Olsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are individuals who are trained and equipped to provide essential health services to their neighbors and have increased access to healthcare in communities worldwide for more than a century. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline on Health Policy and System Support to Optimize Community Health Worker Programmes reveals important gaps in the evidentiary certainty about which health system…

  • Household factors and under-five mortality in Bankass, Mali

    Open AccessDavid Boettiger, Emily Treleaven et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    U5 mortality is very high in Bankass and is associated with living a greater distance from healthcare and several other household factors that may be amenable to intervention or facilitate program targeting

  • Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision

    Open AccessCaroline Whidden, Kassoum Kayentao et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2018

    BACKGROUND: Countries across sub-Saharan Africa are scaling up Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes, yet there remains little high-quality research assessing strategies for CHW supervision and performance improvement. This randomised controlled trial aimed to determine the effect of a personalised performance dashboard used as a supervision tool on the quantity, speed, and quality of CHW care. METHODS: We conducted a randomised controlled tri…

  • Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali

    Jane E Yang, Diego Lassala et al.

    BACKGROUND: Proactive community case management (ProCCM) has shown promise to advance goals of universal health coverage (UHC). ProCCM community health workers (CHWs) face operational challenges when pursuing their goal of visiting every household in their service area at least twice monthly to proactively find sick patients. We developed a software extension (UHC Mode) to an existing CHW mobile application featuring user interface design improve…