How to become a community health worker
Official title: Community health worker
Also called: Community health aide, Community health assistant, Community health promoter, Community health aide
Community health worker provides health education, referral and follow-up, case management, basic preventive health care and home visiting services to specific communities. He/she provides support and assistance to individuals and families in navigating the health and social services system.
Main tasks
- Providing information to families and communities on a range of health issues including nutrition, hygiene, infant and child care, immunisations, family planning, risk factors and prevention of common infectious diseases, poisoning prevention, first aid for treatment of simple and common ailments, substance abuse, domestic violence, and other topics
- Visiting families in their homes to provide information on the health, social and other services available and support them in gaining access to these services
- Visiting families who do not usually access medical establishments to monitor on a regular basis certain conditions such as progress with pregnancy, child growth and development, and environmental sanitation
- Distributing to household’s medical supplies for the prevention and treatment of endemic diseases such as malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoeal diseases, and instructing family and community members in the use of these products
- Conducting outreach efforts to groups who do not usually access medical establishments with information and basic medical supplies for prevention and management of certain health conditions for which they are most at risk, such as HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases
- Collecting data from households and communities who do not usually access medical establishments for purposes of patient monitoring and referral and reporting to meet health regulations
How to become one
Occupations included in this unit group normally require formal or informal training and supervision recognised by the health and social services authorities.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $37,236 a year. The middle half earn $36,000 to $53,100 a year.
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a community health worker?
Occupations included in this unit group normally require formal or informal training and supervision recognised by the health and social services authorities.
How much does a community health worker earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $37,236 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $36,000 to $53,100.
Will AI change the work of a community health worker?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- Singapore Department of Statistics (SingStat): Singapore Standard Occupational Classification (SSOC) 2024 (SSOC 2024 (definitions and index updated 2026-06-24)), Singapore Open Data Licence, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026