Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: May 2022
Podcast with Tom Morris of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy about trends related to the rural healthcare workforce and efforts to overcome challenges. Discusses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural hospital closures, telehealth, graduate medical education in rural areas, community health workers and community paramedics, funding opportunities to promote healthcare access in rural areas, the opioid crisis, and more.
...Community health workers · Community paramedicine · Emergency medical technicians and paramedics · Funding · Graduate medical education · Health...
Reviewed: Sep 8, 2020
Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc. uses community outreach workers travel to deliver health education services to farm workers in rural areas.
...Community Health Workers Toolkit --- Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc. uses community outreach workers travel...
Reviewed: Apr 26, 2024
Cares for roughly 125,000 Maine residents, most of whom reside in rural areas. Focuses on patient-centered care to improve overall wellness and reduce healthcare costs.
...Community care teams, including nurses, licensed social workers, and community health workers who help patients...
Added: Sep 12, 2023
Community paramedics and community health workers make home visits and provide basic care, home assessments, and other services to rural Missouri patients with chronic illnesses.
...health status, and compliance with medication regimens along with increased patient engagement, satisfaction, and access to community resources. Description The Mobile Integrated Healthcare Network (MIHN) in Missouri has community paramedics (CPs) and community health workers...
Reviewed: May 2, 2020
A program that uses community health workers to create a system of coordinated care in order to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in rural Colorado.
...health literacy, rural social/cultural challenges, and an aging population also present challenges when serving residents. The program overcomes these issues using a community-based support system provided by Community Health Workers...
Date: Apr 2022
Describes a culturally tailored community-wide program to augment fruit and vegetable consumption and promote physical activity among 5,686 low-income Latinos of Mexican descent living in Texas. Features demographics and statistics on changes in fruit and vegetable consumption over the course of the intervention.
...Health, 19(8), 4514 Date 04/2022 Type Document Tagged as Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers...
Reviewed: Sep 8, 2020
Ben Archer Health Center is working to reduce health disparities related to chronic diseases through health education.
...Health Center implemented this program with the goal of reducing health disparities related to chronic diseases through health education for management and prevention, improved access to care, and better integration of community health workers...
Date: Nov 2016
Illustrates examples of rural-focused medical education programs to support an adequate supply of physicians in rural Maine. Also, discusses behavioral and oral health workforce development, and promising programs utilizing other types of healthcare workers such as community paramedics and community health workers (CHWs) to increase the availability and accessibility of healthcare in rural Maine and in other rural regions of the U.S.
...Health Access Foundation, Maine Rural Health Research Center Tagged as Behavioral health workforce · Community health workers...
Date: Feb 2020
Describes a community health worker-based chronic care management model implemented in rural counties in 3 central Appalachian states. Demonstrates how to engage health insurance companies to support and sustain this model.
...Community health workers · Diabetes · Health conditions · Health insurance · Statistics and data · Kentucky · Ohio · West Virginia...
Date: Apr 2016
Reports on a review of 67 studies evaluating the effectiveness of community-based health workers (CBHWs) as an intervention model for chronic disease management and care among low-income, underserved, and racial and ethnic minority populations at risk for health disparities. Discusses the roles and tasks of CBHWs, the effectiveness of their intervention, their qualifications and training, and the reimbursement and sustainability of CBHWs.
...health disparities. Discusses the roles and tasks of CBHWs, the effectiveness of their intervention, their qualifications and training, and the reimbursement and sustainability of CBHWs. --- View more Effects of Community-Based Health Worker...