Table 1 Potential scope of work for CHWs adapted from the Community Participation Policy for Health
From: Improving local health through community health workers in Cambodia: challenges and solutions
Health information systems:  • Disease surveillance/monitoring and case reporting to the health centre  • Keep a register of all children below 5 years of age in the village  • Assist the health centre in collecting registration statistics including notification of pregnancies, births and deaths  • Conduct verbal autopsies for deaths that occur in the village  • Collect information on health and health-related problems in the community, inform and report to the health centre |
Provision and follow up of information and essential services:  • Facilitate the identification of the poor for fee exemption  • Provide health education, promote improved health practices and distribute health IEC materials including family planning, antenatal care, clean delivery, post-natal care, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, safe water, hygiene and sanitation, malaria and dengue control, HIV/AIDS/STIs, tuberculosis, immunizations, non-communicable and chronic diseases, mental health, tobacco and alcohol and gender-based and family violence  • Mobilise families and assist health centre staff during outreach activities and health campaigns  • Assist in the mobilisation of resources for sustainability of health centres  • Assist families with early identification of the danger signs for severe/serious illnesses  • Promote and strengthen the health centre referral system and assist in logistics such as transportation |
Provision and follow-up of essential diagnosis and treatment services:  • Promote correct home care for illnesses  • Provide community-based first aid and rehabilitation  • Identify, refer and follow up children with acute malnutrition  • Provide home-based care |
In remote and difficult to access communities:  • Provide early diagnosis and treatment for malaria  • Diagnosis and treat acute respiratory infections with antibiotics in children |
Provision of essential commodities:  • Distribute micronutrient and food supplementation  • Distribute mebendazol and oral re-hydration treatment with zinc  • Distribute condoms and family planning supplies  • Distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets and hammock nets |