Definition Lay Health Workers

The term community health worker has been used to refer to volunteers and salaried professional or lay health workers with a wide range of training experience scope of practice and integration in health systems.

Definition lay health workers. 1 2 6 9 lay health workers deliver a wide range of interventions in such areas as nutrition maternal and child health primary health care malaria tuberculosis and hiv aids prevention and control mental health and non. Lay health workers tend to provide basic health services as unpaid volunteers while level 1 paraprofessionals often receive an allowance and level 2 paraprofessionals tend to be salaried. This review provides a categorisation of chws that may be useful for health policy formulation programme planning and research. Recipients lay health workers and the relevant professional bodies are involved in the planning and implementation of lay health worker programmes.