Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: 2003
Recognizes the community-based health programs and initiatives along the United States-Mexico border that have made great strides in improving the health and well-being of communities along either side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
...health and well-being of communities along either side of the U.S.-Mexico border. Date 2003 Type Document Organization United States-México Border Health Commission Tagged as Community health workers...
Date: Feb 2004
Describes a small pilot study evaluating the effectiveness of a home visitation program using lay health workers. Describes the approach used to evaluate the Low Country Healthy Start Resource Mothers Program, a care coordination program for low-income, African American pregnant women and their infants in two rural South Carolina counties. Reports on the program's impact, including prenatal care, postpartum check-up, well child care, and health outcomes.
...Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center) Tagged as Black or African American · Children and youth · Community health workers...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...