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: Community Health Worker - JSON Representation

Draft as of 2026-03-06

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{
  "resourceType" : "ActorDefinition",
  "id" : "DAK.Persona.CommunityHealthWorker",
  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: ActorDefinition DAK.Persona.CommunityHealthWorker</b></p><a name=\"DAK.Persona.CommunityHealthWorker\"> </a><a name=\"hcDAK.Persona.CommunityHealthWorker\"> </a><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td><b>Actor: CommunityHealthWorker </b></td><td>Community Health Worker</td><td>Type: person </td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\"><div><p>https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240081949</p>\n</div></td></tr></table></div>"
  },
  "url" : "http://smart.who.int/base/ActorDefinition/DAK.Persona.CommunityHealthWorker",
  "version" : "0.2.0",
  "name" : "CommunityHealthWorker",
  "title" : "Community Health Worker",
  "status" : "draft",
  "experimental" : true,
  "date" : "2026-03-06T03:01:34+00:00",
  "publisher" : "WHO",
  "contact" : [
    {
      "name" : "WHO",
      "telecom" : [
        {
          "system" : "url",
          "value" : "http://who.int"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description" : "A frontline member of the health workforce who delivers health interventions\nat the community level, acting as a link between communities and formal health\nfacilities. Community health workers are a key sub-group of healthcare providers.\n\nCommunity health workers use DHIs to:\n- Register and follow-up community members (2.1, 2.2.1)\n- Receive community-based decision support and job aids (2.3)\n- Report public health events from point of diagnosis (3.3.1)\n- Access mobile training and competency assessments (2.8)\n- Communicate with supervising clinical staff (2.5.1)\n- Manage their daily visit planning and activities (2.7)\n\n**ISCO-08**: 3255 (Community health workers), 5321 (Health care assistants).\n\n**Examples**: Village health worker, health extension worker, community health\nvolunteer, lay health advisor, peer educator, traditional birth attendant,\ncommunity case manager.",
  "type" : "person",
  "documentation" : "https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240081949"
}