Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Dec 2023
Recording of a panel discussion on home-based primary care for rural older adults and policies that could address challenges with offering and accessing home-based primary care. Discusses telehealth, broadband, community infrastructure, service models, community health workers, and more. Transcript available in the video description.
...Community health workers · Elderly population · Home and community-based services · Infrastructure · Policy · Primary care · Service...
Date: May 30, 2025
Medicare Care Management Billing Strategies. A webinar from the Rural Health Information Hub.
...community health workers or CHWs. They can truly link patients to within your specific community...
Date: May 2024
Describes a 2 phase study that created a diabetes coaching program and evaluated implementation among agricultural workers with diabetes in the Texas panhandle. Evaluated patient A1C levels and diabetes knowledge to determine the effectiveness of using community health workers to improve diabetes outcomes. Discusses the importance of culturally relevant content and addressing barriers to healthcare access.
...Community health workers · Culture · Diabetes · Farmers and farmworkers · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Added: Sep 14, 2022
Lake Okeechobee Rural Health Network collaborates with community health workers to provide health services to rural areas in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, including a health literacy workshop known as Your Health Matters.
...Community Health Workers (CHWs), Extension Agents, and Health Literacy Community Advocates Improving Health Insurance and Financial...
Date: Jun 2019
Examines the physical activity preferences and changes after a community health worker (CHW) led intervention to decrease sedentary time in 620 Mexican American women from mostly rural colonias settlements in Hidalgo County, South Texas on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Community Health Activities Model Program for Seniors Physical Activity (CHAMPS) instrument was used to predict an increase in moderate to vigorous physical activity.
...community health worker (CHW) led intervention to decrease sedentary time in 620 Mexican American women...
Date: Oct 2024
Describes trends in the supply and distribution of clinicians in primary care, behavioral health, and obstetrical care, as well as dentists, surgeons, community health workers, and home health aides. Examines the availability of workforce data for professions important for rural communities, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using various health workforce data sources for rural health research. Features statistics with breakdowns by 5 levels of population density.
...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health aides and assistants · Health workforce supply and demand · Home...
Date: Dec 2018
Study of two community health worker (CHW) chronic disease prevention programs serving Mexico-born residents of the U.S-Mexico border region: one in a rural Arizona community and one in an urban community in Sonora, Mexico. Discusses challenges related to healthy diet, physical activity, and social support as risk factors for obesity and diabetes. Analyzes data from self-report assessments to evaluate behavioral and subjective health improvements over 6 months of the intervention programs.
...community health worker (CHW) chronic disease prevention programs serving Mexico-born residents of the U.S-Mexico...
Date: Apr 2025
Notes the challenges of aging in rural communities and highlights the National Rural Age-Friendly Initiative (NRAFI) by the National Rural Health Association and The John A. Hartford Foundation. NRAFI works to promote cross-sector collaboration to address those common challenges. Describes the NRAFI's work to date in creating and disseminating information, training community health workers, and building a networking infrastructure to facilitate collaboration.
...Aging and aging-related services · Community health workers · Health workforce education and training · Networking and collaboration...
Date: May 2021
Describes how PeaceHealth is promoting COVID-19 vaccines among farmworkers in rural Washington. Discusses the role of community health workers and digital media in educating people about the importance of vaccination.
...Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health disparities · Vaccination · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Jun 2019
Results of a study conducted in Appalachian Kentucky, exploring a program in which community health workers helped promote healthy eating, physical activity, stress reduction, and other activities to manage risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
...Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers · Mental health conditions · Physical activity · Tobacco use · Kentucky...