Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Reviewed: Jun 8, 2023
Learn more about implementation considerations for rural telehealth programs that serve tribes.
...community health workers to help patients address other needs outside of the healthcare setting. The Indian...
Date: Oct 2022
Analyzes access and barriers to healthcare services for Eastern Coachella Valley rural farmworkers who are exposed to workplace and environmental health risks. Reports on 9 culturally responsive in-home interviews conducted from 2017 to 2018 with the assistance of a bilingual Spanish-Purépecha Latina promotora. Provides demographic information of participants and quotes from interviews related to themes such as environmental exposures, including the nearby Salton Sea; agricultural labor and its impact on health; chronic health conditions and trauma of exposures; and community-proposed solutions.
...engagement and volunteerism · Community health workers · Culture · Environmental health · Farmers and farmworkers · Health conditions · California...
Date: Jan 2016
Reports on the effectiveness of a weight control intervention using health coaches to target home environments using the Healthy Homes/Healthy Families model. Examines changes in the patients' physical activity, calorie intake, and weight. The intervention focused on overweight and obese women in rural Georgia who were patients of community health centers.
...Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness...
Date: Apr 2016
Describes the Expanded Health Coaches for Hypertension Control (EHCHC) project to increase the proportion of adults 45 years and older to self-manage their hypertension. Discusses how a primary care practice and a community-based program can work together to improve patient knowledge and support readiness for behavior change through various channels, including the use of trained volunteer community health coaches.
...Community health workers · Physical activity · Population health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jun 2015
Investigates the knowledge and beliefs among rural Latina immigrant women in southeastern Georgia about the causes of cervical cancer and apparent barriers to cervical cancer screening. A cross-sectional survey of 39 Mexican women was conducted and the information gathered was applied to inform and test the development and effect of using trained lay health advisors or promotoras to increase compliance with cervical cancer screening.
...Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: May 2017
Highlights the activities conducted by promotoras during an intervention study using community asset mapping (CAM) to identify factors that may facilitate or create barriers to physical activity among Latina residents in the U.S.-Mexico border region of Texas.
...Nursing, 34(3), 267-275 Date 05/2017 Tagged as Community health workers · Physical activity · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...
Date: Oct 2017
Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit corporation that established a pilot program to improve the health of rural patients through the use of technology and interdisciplinary care teams working together in Montana's Flathead Valley. Describes a $1 million innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to support their use of ReSource Teams and help care for high-cost, high-need Medicare patients in the region.
...Community Health Workers Connect with Patients in Rural Montana Description Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health...
Date: Aug 5, 2015
Finger Lakes Community Health, a rural Federally Qualified Health Center, created an open access telehealth network to improve efficiency and protect their staff, after two separate traffic accidents involving FLCH providers. - The Rural Monitor
...community health worker suffered brain damage from being hit head-on by another vehicle after...
Date: Nov 2023
Summarizes and synthesizes the findings from a series of five case studies that explored the impact of policy initiatives that aim to improve access to primary care. Covers increasing the availability of primary care providers, improving underserved communities' access to outpatient clinics, removing structural barriers to care, making primary care affordable, and improving comfort and communication between providers and patients. Presents recommendations for federal and state policymakers, primary care practices, medical schools, and other relevant stakeholders. Includes rural examples and considerations throughout.
...Community health workers · Culture · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Financial aid for health career education · Graduate...
Reviewed: Jan 17, 2024
The Diabetes Master Clinician Program helps rural Florida primary care providers implement quality improvement initiatives to address chronic care.
...community health workers and quality improvement strategies for cardiovascular disease outcomes. Theories, Models, and Strategies...