Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Jan 2023
Discusses the shortage of licensed behavioral health workers in rural and underserved communities. Explores the roles of behavioral health support specialists and community-initiated care to support licensed behavioral health professionals. Offers policy recommendations to strengthen the roles of the nonclinical workforce.
...health workers in rural and underserved communities. Explores the roles of behavioral health support specialists...
Date: 2024
Describes an emergency preparedness project to develop vulnerability indicators and conduct geospatial mapping analysis of the places that farmworkers live and work in north central Florida. Discusses collaborations with farmworker-focused community based organizations and community advisory boards, ethics, and public health implications of the work. Includes recommendations to public health workers and policymakers interested in farmworker communities.
...community advisory boards, ethics, and public health implications of the work. Includes recommendations to public health workers...
Date: 2023
Proceedings from a February 28, 2022 workshop exploring challenges faced by public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, renewed policymaker attention, and expenditures directed to supporting the public health workforce. Intended to showcase the training, roles of, and setting for population health workers. Includes information focused on tribal communities in chapters 3 and 4.
...health workers. Includes information focused on tribal communities in chapters 3 and 4. --- A Population...
Date: Feb 2025
Discusses surgical healthcare worker shortages in rural communities and strategies to recruit and retain future surgeons. Provides information on the subspeciality in rural areas and the importance of access to surgical care.
...Health Care Access in Rural Communities --- Discusses surgical healthcare worker shortages in rural communities and strategies...
Date: Apr 2025
Discusses the efficacy of a whole-health assessment of migrant and seasonal agricultural workers (MSAWs) at identifying community strengths and challenges pertaining to physical, emotional, social, and economic health. Highlights the University of Minnesota comprehensive whole-health assessment criteria and details the implementation, uptake, and results.
...health assessment of migrant and seasonal agricultural workers (MSAWs) at identifying community strengths and challenges...
Reviewed: May 2025
Helpline connects farmers and agricultural workers to trained professionals offering mental health support and resources in their area. Provides crisis support tailored for the agricultural community with an understanding of the values, stressors, and lived experiences of the agricultural community. Helpline is open 24/7 and is currently available in CT, MO, PA, TX, VA, and WY.
...Communities --- Helpline connects farmers and agricultural workers to trained professionals offering mental health support and resources...
Date: Mar 2023
Fact sheet describing a program intended to study the causes and effects of coal mine dust lung disease and to offer early detection and prevent progression of the disease. Provides information on health screenings available at mobile testing units that travel to communities and mining sites.
...health screenings available at mobile testing units that travel to communities and mining sites. --- Coal Workers...
Date: Mar 2023
Highlights a strategic plan for researching occupational safety and health of American Indian and Alaska Native workers. Provides a step-by-step guide for conducting and disseminating research on the health and safety risks of AI/AN workers, as well as crafting safety policy for tribal communities.
...health and safety risks of AI/AN workers, as well as crafting safety policy for tribal communities...
Date: 2023
Summary of a National Academies' Environmental Health Matters Initiative workshop in June 2023 discussing differences in outcomes for extreme heat. Highlights challenges with data gathering, recent policy changes, capacity building, and partnerships. Includes discussion of rural specific challenges, occupational health for farmworkers and other outdoor workers, and healthcare access.
...health for farmworkers and other outdoor workers, and healthcare access. --- Communities, Climate Change, and Health...
Date: Dec 2024
Policy brief discussing violence against healthcare workers and unique factors that may influence underreporting of such violence in rural areas. Offers policy recommendations to prevent healthcare worker violence in rural healthcare settings and communities and reduce barriers to reporting.
...worker violence in rural healthcare settings and communities and reduce barriers to reporting. --- Preventing Violence Against Rural Health...