Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: May 2017
Examines effective strategies for integrating community health workers (CHWs) into complex care teams. Discusses factors to consider, such as recruiting and hiring, training and career progression, team integration, support and retention, and more. Includes a brief description of characteristics that are particularly important for CHWs working in rural areas.
...Health Care Strategies Tagged as Care coordination · Community health workers · Recruitment and retention of health...
Date: May 2017
Highlights the activities conducted by promotoras during an intervention study using community asset mapping (CAM) to identify factors that may facilitate or create barriers to physical activity among Latina residents in the U.S.-Mexico border region of Texas.
...Health Nursing, 34(3), 267-275 Date 05/2017 Type Document Tagged as Community health workers...
Date: May 31, 2017
Public agencies and private non-profit groups have mutual interests in improving the health of rural Americans. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and philanthropy organizations worked together to create a unique funding opportunity, the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Program. Two health care organizations and their philanthropy partners share how coordinated efforts benefit patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. - The Rural Monitor
...Health and Wellness Center in Williamson, West Virginia, uses their federal grant funds to build on successes of a previous university-based study, which involved a model using community health workers...
Date: Jun 2017
A guide for establishing a Community Health Worker program in the state of Delaware. Includes information about certification requirements and reimbursement mechanisms, along with model programs from other states.
...Community Health Workers in Delaware --- A guide for establishing a Community Health Worker program in the state...
Date: Jun 2017
Assesses the Kentucky Care Coordination for Community Transitions (KC3T) program of employing a specially trained community health worker (CHW) as a navigator to aid in the transition of individuals who have had a stroke from acute in-patient care to their rural community. The goal of the study was to determine the community navigation and resources required by people who have had a stroke in order to transition back to rural communities with few resources and to facilitate positive health outcomes.
...Community Transitions for Individuals Post-Stroke Returning to Low-Resource Rural Communities --- Assesses the Kentucky Care Coordination for Community Transitions (KC3T) program of employing a specially trained community health worker...
Date: Jun 28, 2017
For the past few decades, suicide rates for working-aged men have been at a steep incline. Healthy Men Michigan is a unique campaign that evaluates the risk of depression and suicide in Michigan men through an anonymous online survey. Male-dominated industries and other organizations are drawn to the campaign's creative methods that appeal to working-aged men. - The Rural Monitor
...health of workers, especially during down times," attested Elhart. Recent studies show that suicide rates are the highest in male-dominated industries of construction and extraction. Other industries with high rates of male suicide include...
Date: Jul 2017
Video highlighting a West Virginia community health worker program that helps patients with chronic illness connect with services and manage their health.
...health worker program that helps patients with chronic illness connect with services and manage their health. --- View more Williamson Health and Wellness Center Link View Resource Description Video highlighting a West Virginia community...
Date: Jul 2017
Provides basic guidelines for personnel management to supervisors of Promotor(a) de Salud programs. Covered topics include recruiting and hiring, orientation and training, supervision, and challenges.
...supervision, and challenges. Date 07/2017 Type Document Organization MHP Salud Tagged as Community health workers...
Added: Jul 14, 2017
This model uses community health workers or promotores to conduct community-wide smoking cessation classes or link tobacco users to local cessation resources.
...Community Health Worker Interventions This model uses community health workers (CHWs) or promotores to conduct...
Added: Jul 14, 2017
Learn about tobacco prevention and cessation program models at the community-level.
...community-level. --- View more Models for Communities Community-based programs in rural communities involve different components, such as communication strategies, efforts to increase community support, religious institutions, and community health workers...