Website Search Results for: community health workers
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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...
Date: Jun 2017
Assesses the Kentucky Care Coordination for Community Transitions (KC3T) program of employing a specially trained community health worker (CHW) as a navigator to aid in the transition of individuals who have had a stroke from acute in-patient care to their rural community. The goal of the study was to determine the community navigation and resources required by people who have had a stroke in order to transition back to rural communities with few resources and to facilitate positive health outcomes.
...Health, 42(3), 565-572 06/2017 Cardiovascular disease · Care coordination · Community health workers · Informal caregivers · Statistics and data · Kentucky...
Date: Mar 2023
Webinar highlighting a rural library's efforts to increase digital health literacy and healthcare access in rural Texas. Discusses telehealth, broadband access inequities and digital literacy, transportation issues, aging in place, community health workers working in libraries, emergency response, circulating medical equipment, and summer meals for students. Transcript available in the video description.
...Community health workers · Emergency preparedness and response · Food security and nutrition · Health literacy · Home and community...
Date: Sep 2022
Explores the role community health workers, or promotoras de salud, played in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a father-focused health program for rural communities on the U.S.-Mexico border. Highlights some of the health and wellness issues for children and adults in the poor and under-resourced colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border.
...Community health workers · Families · Immigrants · Poverty · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Texas...
Date: Sep 2022
Examines barriers and strategies affecting COVID-19 vaccination and testing uptake in rural Latino communities in southwest Florida. Uses data from interviews conducted between March-April 2021 with 25 key stakeholders including rural Latino community members, local leaders, and community health workers.
...Health, 19(18), 11785 09/2022 Access · Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers · Infectious diseases · Vaccination · Florida...
Date: Nov 1, 2022
The November 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Jennifer Conner, DrPH, an associate professor with the Delta Population Health Institute at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, and Jason Lofton, MD, a family physician at the Lofton Family Clinic in De Queen, Arkansas, in a discussion about rural obesity and how rural patients can live their healthiest life.
...community health worker. You know, the schools, the mayor, the public health, you know, and how do we, I think...
Date: 2016
Describes how the communities within the Columbia Gorge region took a collaborative approach by developing a 15-member community advisory committee that included Medicaid recipients and Latino residents. Top concerns addressed by this committee were food, housing, jobs and transportation, along with improved access to dental and mental health, and better coordination among social services and healthcare providers. Projects included expanding the use and training of community health workers (CHWs) to assist Latino residents when navigating programs outside of healthcare and the development of a fruit and vegetable prescription program to support increased intake of healthy foods. A collective impact specialist was hired to help solve community problems through collaborative efforts, and to find grants and other sources of funding to support their projects. Columbia Gorge Region is a recipient of the 2016 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Prize.
...community health workers (CHWs) to assist Latino residents when navigating programs outside of healthcare and the development...
Date: Dec 2022
Expands on Phase I of a plan to address the social determinants of health (SDOH) to advance equity, provide social and economic opportunities, and improve health outcomes in Michigan. Focuses on health equity, community information exchange, community health workers (CHWs), chronic disease initiatives, population health, and a partnership with the Michigan Center for Rural Health (MCRH).
...Community health workers · Health disparities · Networking and collaboration · Population health · Social determinants of health · Wellness...