Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Altura Centers for Health created a quality improvement system and electronic health records to identify tobacco users and direct them to cessation services.
...health education. Altura also employs promotoras (community health workers) to provide outreach and education to community...
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Considerations for tribal populations, including a discussion of the difference between traditional and commercial tobacco use and tribal smoke-free policies.
...community members, and policy resources. Also included are model policies, policy analysis worksheets, and strategy charts. Organization(s): State of Alaska Tobacco Prevention and Control Program and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Date: 8/2016...
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This model describes opportunities to promote smoking cessation in the workplace and resources for employers.
...Workers In this model, worksites sponsor competitions for employees that promote smoking cessation, or provide incentives for abstaining from tobacco use. A competition could involve a contest that rewards a worker who abstains from tobacco...
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Tobacco- and smoke-free policies in businesses, outdoor areas, schools, and other areas can reduce tobacco use.
...community. Resources include a readiness assessment, model ordinances, media opportunities, enforcement, and implementation information. Smoke-Free Laws Do Not Harm Business at Restaurants and Bars Document This fact sheet provides examples and evidence of outcomes...
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Learn about rural populations with high rates of tobacco use.
...Rural Population with High Rates of Tobacco Use - RHIhub Toolkit --- Learn about rural populations with...
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Adapting interventions to meet your obesity program's audience characteristics, risk factors, program staff, and community needs.
...Community Health Workers Toolkit: Planning for Sustainability, Why Plans are Needed - Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit...
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Tools produced by field experts to help schools assess wellness programs and improve wellness for their students.
...Community Health Workers Toolkit: Measuring Program Impact - Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit --- Tools produced by field...
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A family-centered educational wellness program that uses promotoras and targets Hispanic populations, with the goal of reducing risk for metabolic syndrome.
...Health) Grant Period: National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Grantee Program Representative Interviewed: Linda Powell, Program Director Intervention Setting: Community Program Overview: Partners in Health is a promotora, or community health worker...
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Rural populations with a higher risk of obesity.
...health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, certain cancers, and arthritis. Rural populations with a higher risk of obesity include those who are: Age 60 and above Low-income Caucasians living in Appalachia Latino...
Date: Oct 2017
Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit corporation that established a pilot program to improve the health of rural patients through the use of technology and interdisciplinary care teams working together in Montana's Flathead Valley. Describes a $1 million innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to support their use of ReSource Teams and help care for high-cost, high-need Medicare patients in the region.
...Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care Link View Resource Additional link Case Study: Shared Military Background Helps Community Health Workers...