Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Apr 2015
Provides guidelines for the integration of community health workers (CHWs) into community based chronic disease prevention programs. Includes examples from a variety of CHW programs, some of which serve rural communities.
...workers (CHWs) into community based chronic disease prevention programs. Includes examples from a variety of CHW programs, some of which serve rural communities. --- View more Addressing Chronic Disease Through Community Health...
Date: Apr 2015
Describes the benefits and lessons learned of a New Mexico state-wide primary care improvement infrastructure program - Health Extension Rural Offices (HERO) - to address social determinants of health. Through the use of extension agents (HEROs) information about patient centered medical homes (PCMH) and university resources was provided to 34 participating small primary care clinics of which half were rural. Program was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants.
...Tagged as Community health workers · Medical homes · Primary care · Social determinants of health · New Mexico...
Date: May 2015
Describes a 5-year community-based study on obesity intervention programs in children ages 2-8 in two rural Mexican-American communities in California's Central Valley. Discusses family-centered, culturally adapted programs promoting healthy eating and physical activity for children of rural agricultural workers.
...communities in California's Central Valley. Discusses family-centered, culturally adapted programs promoting healthy eating and physical activity for children of rural agricultural workers. Author(s) Lucia Kaiser, Judith Martinez, Marcel Horowitz, et al. Citation...
Date: Jun 2015
Investigates the knowledge and beliefs among rural Latina immigrant women in southeastern Georgia about the causes of cervical cancer and apparent barriers to cervical cancer screening. A cross-sectional survey of 39 Mexican women was conducted and the information gathered was applied to inform and test the development and effect of using trained lay health advisors or promotoras to increase compliance with cervical cancer screening.
...Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jul 30, 2015
Wayne Myers, a retired pediatrician and rural medical educator, reflects on what the Medicare program's support for graduate medical education has meant for the rural physician workforce. - The Rural Monitor
...workers. It's hard to say what changes in American life and health are attributable to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid into that swirl in August of 1965. I was in my fourth...
Date: Aug 2015
Examines the impact of California's droughts on vulnerable populations, including low-income, agricultural communities and Native American populations. Discusses drought-related health conditions and the drought's impact on food security, especially for agricultural workers. Offers recommendations to address the uneven impact of climate change, including emergency money for small and rural communities affected by the drought.
...communities and Native American populations. Discusses drought-related health conditions and the drought's impact on food security, especially for agricultural workers...
Date: Aug 5, 2015
Finger Lakes Community Health, a rural Federally Qualified Health Center, created an open access telehealth network to improve efficiency and protect their staff, after two separate traffic accidents involving FLCH providers. - The Rural Monitor
...community health worker suffered brain damage from being hit head-on by another vehicle after...
Date: Sep 2015
Policy brief analyzing the effectiveness of using community health workers as community healthcare coordinators during a 3 year period (2012–2015) in frontier Montana. Includes recommendations to other communities that may consider implementing this model. Project was supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Frontier Community Health Care Network Coordination (FCHCNC) grant program.
...community health workers as community healthcare coordinators during a 3 year period (2012–2015) in frontier...
Date: Sep 2015
Reports on a qualitative study of a promotora-led oral health education program for low-income, Spanish-speaking parents of children aged 1–5 years, conducted in a rural agricultural city in California.
...Tagged as Community health workers · Families · Oral health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · California...
Date: Oct 2015
Policy brief describing the driving forces behind rural health disparities in Appalachian Kentucky. Offers nationally relevant recommendations for addressing these challenges. Discusses rural and urban differences in life expectancy and mortality rates, and other significant factors including behavioral health, substance abuse, population health, trauma care, and transportation.
...Community health workers · Emergency department and urgent care services · Mortality · Population health · Rural-urban differences...