Community Health Worker Breast Cancer Education

Preparation

Comparisons

Where it comes from

Highlighted claims

• The intervention trained community health workers to recognise breast cancer symptoms and encourage earlier presentation to care. — Equity impact and cost-effectiveness of a community health worker breast cancer educational programme in rural South Africa: a modelling study
• The modelled programme also trained primary healthcare nurses in breast cancer symptom recognition, clinical breast examination, and clinical algorithms. — Equity impact and cost-effectiveness of a community health worker breast cancer educational programme in rural South Africa: a modelling study
• The intervention was based on a Rwanda cluster randomised trial where community health worker education increased early-stage breast cancer presentation. — Equity impact and cost-effectiveness of a community health worker breast cancer educational programme in rural South Africa: a modelling study
• Because Rwanda and South Africa have different stage distributions, the study applied a relative intervention effect rather than directly transferring Rwandan stage proportions. — Equity impact and cost-effectiveness of a community health worker breast cancer educational programme in rural South Africa: a modelling study