Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Feb 26, 2015
Highlights three university programs that are embracing distance education to allow professionals to stay in their rural communities while earning a degree. - The Rural Monitor
...communities are facing shortages of a major resource: healthcare professionals. A 2014 analysis from HRSA's National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (no longer available online) put this in perspective—of the 32 health occupations...
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
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: 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.
...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...
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.
...Health, 17(3), 713-721 Date 06/2015 Type Document Tagged as Access · Cancer · Community health workers...
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
...Medicare's Impact on Graduate Medical Education and the Rural Physician Workforce - The Rural Monitor...
Date: Aug 2015
Profile of a pilot project in rural New Mexico focused on population health for Medicaid recipients. Offers communities 3 levels of patient services and payment. Uses community health workers to address the social determinants of health.
...Health --- Profile of a pilot project in rural New Mexico focused on population health for Medicaid recipients. Offers communities 3 levels of patient services and payment. Uses community health workers...
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...