Dear colleagues:
See below a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management on community health workers in the
We would very much like to a get a good representation of different country experiences.
James Macinko, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Policy
Director, Global MPH Program
Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health,
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Community health workers in primary health care: evidence, challenges, and future directions
The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management is a peer-reviewed journal that provides timely, applied information on the most important developments and issues in ambulatory care management.
General guidelines for submission to the journal are available at http://www.ambulatorycaremanagement.com/pt/re/jacm/authorinfo.htm
The deadline for submitting completed manuscripts is February 1, 2011
Community health workers have been described as “members of communities who work either for pay or as volunteers in association with the local health care system…[who] usually share ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status and life experiences with the community members they serve” (HRSA, 2008). Throughout the world, community health workers have been employed as members of healthcare delivery teams, navigators of the health system, screening and education providers, outreach workers, community organizers, and in other roles. This special issue of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management will focus on documenting evidence on costs, benefits, outcomes, and challenges associated with community health workers in primary health care and examine policy initiatives to support CHW services.
Authors describing original empirical research assessing the effectiveness of community health workers in different primary care settings, including analyses of costs, management, sustainability, effects on the health labor market, health outcomes, and policy strategies are invited to submit their work. We encourage submissions from both high and low income countries and communities and are particularly interested in impact evaluations, demonstrations of best practices, and policy analyses, but will consider other themes. All manuscripts should be submitted in English.
For articles discussing community health worker interventions, authors should describe program elements in their full articles, including: the type and amount of community health worker education; community health worker programmatic roles played; program financing mechanisms; and main outcome measures. As possible, reference to these elements should be briefly reviewed in submitted abstracts.
SUBMISSION DATES AND DEADLINES:
Authors should email a structured abstract (up to 350 words and including introduction, methods, results, conclusions) no later than October 1, 2010. The editors will then be in contact with authors upon review of the abstract.
Full manuscripts will be solicited from a selection of authors who have submitted abstracts.
The deadline for submitting completed manuscripts is February 1, 2011.
For more information or to answer any questions, authors should feel free to contact guest editors, James Macinko james.macinko@nyu.edu and
E. Lee Rosenthal elrosenthal@utep.edu, or journal editor, Norbert Goldfield nigoldfield@mmm.com
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