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The Community Health Toolkit (CHT) is a collection of open-source technologies and open-access resources developed by a community focused on global health equity.[1] It provides necessary technologies and design, technical, and implementer resources that help community members build and deploy digital tools for community health.[2] The technologies and resources in the Community Health Toolkit have been co-designed with local health teams to advance universal health coverage.[3] The Community Health Toolkit has been used in countries in Africa and Asia including Nepal, Kenya, Niger[4], and Zanzibar[5].
History
[edit]The Community Health Toolkit was launched in 2019.[6]
Technologies and Features
[edit]CHT Core Framework
[edit]The Core Framework provides a foundation for developers to build digital health applications and provides features and functionalities including offline-first technology, and localization.[7]
CHT Conf
[edit]CHT Conf is a command-line interface tool to manage and configure your apps built using the Core Framework of the Community Health Toolkit.[8]
CHT couch2pg
[edit]CHT couch2pg is an npm library and command-line interface for replicating CouchDB databases to PostgreSQL.[9]
Oppia Mobile
[edit]Oppia Mobile is an open-source mobile learning platform designed for delivering learning content in low broadband settings.[10]
Use Cases
[edit]Community Health Toolkit applications support community health interactions between community health interactions including family surveys, pregnancy registrations, pregnancy visits, pregnancy referral follow ups, postnatal care, assessments, and assessment follow ups.[11]
In 2020, a number of organizations partnered to use the Community Health Toolkit to support community health workers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.[12] Through the Community Health Toolkit, community health workers are able to collect data to identify possible disease outbreaks—either by further integrating them into national information systems or by running anomaly detection algorithms to identify potential new disease clusters.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ Holeman, Isaac; Kane, Dianna (29 Sep 2019). "Human-centered design for global health equity". Information Technology for Development: 477–505. doi:10.1080/02681102.2019.1667289.
- ^ Augustin, Caitlin; Holeman, Isaac; Salomon, Erika; Olsen, Helen; Azar, Phil; Ayyangar, Mitali (30 Sep 2021). "Pathways to Increasing Trust in Public Health Data". Information Technology for Development: 24–32. doi:10.1080/09332480.2021.1979808.
- ^ Geniets, Anne; O'Donovan, James; Winters, Niall; Hakimi, Laura (6 Sep 2021). Training for Community Health. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198866244.
- ^ "Community Health Toolkit (CHT)". World Health Organization. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Hofmann, Rachel. "Community Health Toolkit Selected to Support Zanzibar's National Community Health Volunteer Program". D-tree International. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Launch of the Community Health Toolkit!". Engineering For Change. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Community Health Toolkit". CHT Core Framework. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "cht-conf". npm. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "cht-couch2pg". npm. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "The Community Health Toolkit collaboration and OppiaMobile". Digital Campus. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Augustin, Caitlin; Holeman, Isaac; Salomon, Erika; Olsen, Helen; Azar, Phil; Ayyangar, Mitali (30 Sep 2021). "Pathways to Increasing Trust in Public Health Data". Information Technology for Development: 24–32. doi:10.1080/09332480.2021.1979808.
- ^ "Supporting health workers and building partnerships to respond to COVID-19". Digital Square. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Lerner, Jordan. "Learning from COVID-19: How Investments in Frontline Digital Tools Now Can Prepare Us for the Next Pandemic". Dimagi. Retrieved 27 October 2021.