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181. Creating a Patient Navigation Model to Address Cervical Cancer Disparities in a Rural Hispanic Farmworker Community
Date: Nov 2012

Details a program to address cervical cancer disparities in rural Hispanic agricultural workers. Addresses specific barriers to preventive screenings, including awareness and knowledge of screening, cultural beliefs, cost, lack of health insurance, transportation, and child care.

...Community --- Details a program to address cervical cancer disparities in rural Hispanic agricultural workers. Addresses specific barriers to preventive screenings, including awareness and knowledge of screening, cultural beliefs, cost, lack of health...

182. Innovative Primary Care Delivery in Rural Alaska: A Review of Patient Encounters Seen by Community Health Aides
Date: Jun 2012

Reviews outpatient visits to Community Health Aides (CHAs) and Community Health Practitioners (CHPs) from October 2004 to September 2006 to evaluate the scope of health problems seen by CHA/Ps in remote, rural Alaska to the Alaska Native population. Discusses how the program could serve as a healthcare delivery model for remote areas.

...Health, 71(1) Date 06/2012 Type Document Tagged as Access · American Indian or Alaska Native · Community health workers...

183. Four U.S. Border States' Community Health Worker Training Needs Assessment
Date: Dec 2011

Assesses and identifies the training needs of community health workers (CHWs) to help design effective training programs in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

...Community Health Worker Training Needs Assessment --- Assesses and identifies the training needs of community health...

184. Salud es Vida: Development of a Cervical Cancer Education Curriculum for Promotora Outreach With Latina Farmworkers in Rural Southern Georgia
Date: Dec 2011

Discusses the development and evaluation of a community health worker curriculum intended to inform Hispanic farmworker women about cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), and the HPV vaccine.

...Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health screening · Hispanic or Latino · Vaccination · Wellness, health promotion...

185. Promising Practices for Rural Community Health Worker Programs
Date: Mar 2011

Identifies six rural community health worker models in the literature and in practice: promotora, member of the care delivery team, care coordinator, health educator, outreach and enrollment agent, and community organizer and capacity builder.

...Community Health Worker Programs --- Identifies six rural community health worker models in the literature and in practice...

186. Preparing the Interprofessional Healthcare Workforce to Address Health Behavior Change: Ensuring A High Quality and Cost-Effective Healthcare System
Date: Sep 2010

10th Annual Report to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Congress of the United States. Focuses on education and training needed to help the healthcare workforce promote positive health behaviors. Discusses task shifting to community members in rural areas such as the use of lay health workers, including promotoras and patient navigators.

...Community-Based Linkages Tagged as Community health workers · Interprofessional training of the health workforce · Policy...

187. MedlinePlus and the Challenge of Low Health Literacy: Findings From the Colonias Project
Date: Jan 2007

Describes the Colonias Project, a health literacy outreach project using promotoras in low-income Hispanic communities along the Texas-Mexico border.

...Tagged as Community health workers · Health literacy · Hispanic or Latino · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...

188. Training Community Health Workers: Using Technology and Distance Education
Date: Apr 2006

Highlights programs and issues related to the use of technology and distance education to train community health workers (CHWs) in frontier areas. Includes examples of successful programs.

...Health Policy Tagged as Community health workers · Health workforce education and training · Technology for health...

189. Emergency Medical Services in Frontier Areas: Volunteer Community Organizations
Date: Apr 2006

Provides information on paid and volunteer Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers in frontier and rural areas. Discusses challenges facing volunteer EMS systems and provides examples of different types of programs from several states.

...Community Organizations --- Provides information on paid and volunteer Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers in frontier and rural areas. Discusses challenges facing volunteer EMS systems and provides examples of different types of programs from several states...

190. Community Health Worker (CHW) Certification and Training: A National Survey of Regionally and State-Based Programs
Date: May 2005

Provides a national overview of state policy and state involvement in more formal training and certification of community health workers. Analyzes the potential effects of these policy trends.

...community health workers. Analyzes the potential effects of these policy trends. --- View more Community Health...