Inger B. Scheel

TL;DR: Evidence of moderate quality of the effectiveness of LHWs in promoting immunisation childhood uptake is found and low quality evidence that LHWs may reduce child morbidity is found.

TL;DR: Ole Petter Ottersen, Jashodhara Dasgupta, Chantal Blouin, Paulo Buss, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Julio Frenk, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Bience P Gawanas, Rita Giacaman, John Gyapong, Jennifer Leaning, Michael Marmot, Desmond McNeill, Gertrude I Mongella, Nkosana Moyo, Sigrun M

TL;DR: It may not be useful to promote a generic range of incentives, such as wages, to improve community health worker programme sustainability, and programmes should ensure that the context-specific expectations of community health workers, programme managers, and policy makers are in alignment if low attrition and high performance are to be achieved.

TL;DR: Qualitative studies carried out alongside trials of complex interventions of lay health worker programmes could offer opportunities to authors of systematic reviews of effectiveness wishing to understand the heterogeneity of trial results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of glucosamine in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP) with degenerative lumbar osteoarthritis (OA) was investigated.