Resources Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Jan 2013
Evaluates the effectiveness of a Community Health Worker system of care to help decrease coronary heart disease in primarily rural and frontier Colorado counties. Includes data and statistics broken down by age, race, risk factors, and geographic location.
...Community Health Worker Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program in Public Health and Health Care Settings --- Evaluates...
Date: Dec 2013
Identifies the scope of practice, supervision, financing, and the workforce standards implemented by states and employers in the development of community health worker (CHW) programs. Four case studies that include rural counties illustrate the challenges and opportunities for integrating CHWs into health systems.
...health systems. --- View more Promising Approaches to Integrating Community Health Workers into Health Systems: Four...
Date: Jan 2016
Identifies and discusses health services research on the utilization and integration of Community Health Workers (CHWs) into healthcare service delivery. Includes an analysis regarding the various CHW models, employment data, training and credentialing, and challenges associated with the development of this occupation.
...Health Workers: Roles and Opportunities in Health Care Delivery System Reform --- Identifies and discusses health services research on the utilization and integration of Community...
Date: Dec 2019
Summarizes key findings from previous Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded studies in 9 states on Community Health Workers (CHWs) interventions and their effect on diverse ethnic, racial, socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds, including rural. Offers evidence-based recommendations to help state policymakers integrate CHWs into healthcare delivery teams to improve health outcomes and reduce the cost of healthcare for individuals and populations.
...health outcomes and reduce the cost of healthcare for individuals and populations. --- View more Making Community Health Workers...
Date: Mar 2017
Provides an update to the story of the Zuni people of western New Mexico and the health conditions they commonly face: chronic kidney disease and diabetes. Describes the Home-Based Kidney Care model to train tribal members fluent in Zuni to become community health workers. The community health workers visit patients weekly, providing them with education on healthy lifestyles, medication support, and data collection. The original story, published in July 2014, is included at the end of the update.
...community health workers. The community health workers visit patients weekly, providing them with education on healthy...
Date: Jul 2020
Discusses healthcare provider types that might have the potential to benefit rural communities including community health workers, community paramedics, patient advocates, health coaches, and dental therapists.
...communities including community health workers, community paramedics, patient advocates, health coaches, and dental therapists. --- View...
Date: Jul 2023
Summarizes presentations and discussions from an April 2023 workshop on the use of community health workers and youth ambassadors to promote health literacy in their communities. Highlights lessons learned by Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 and the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities (NIMIC) grantees who implemented health literacy approaches in community health worker and youth ambassador programs. Includes rural references throughout.
...Community Health Workers/Youth Ambassadors to Improve Health Literacy: Proceedings of a Workshop – in Brief --- Summarizes presentations and discussions from an April 2023 workshop on the use of community health workers...
Date: Apr 2015
Addresses gaps for women in rural Arizona communities related to sexual violence. Reports on a community health worker training program to help rural women navigate these services and provide support services to them. Includes the training program evaluation instrument and a list of community health worker core competencies for sexual violence programs.
...Community Health Workers/Promotoras --- Addresses gaps for women in rural Arizona communities related to sexual violence. Reports on a community health worker...
Date: Jul 2022
Examines a sample of 255 Black participants on the effectiveness of the Carolina Heart Alliance Networking for Greater Equity (CHANGE) Program delivered by Community Health Workers (CHW) to rural adults in North Carolina. Provides information on program content, participant characteristics, implementation variables, and overall program effectiveness on blood pressure, nutritious eating, and physical activity.
...Health Promotion, 36(6), 948-958 Date 07/2022 Type Document Tagged as Black or African American · Cardiovascular disease · Community health workers...
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...