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Practical Implications of Understanding Community Health Through Vitalism in Canadian Community Health Centers

Aporia, 2021
Definitions and understandings of the term “community health” are numerous, but generally orient themselves around an expanded understanding of health exceeding biomedical imperatives.
Elisabeth Beaunoyer, Valérie Desgroseilliers, Nicolas Vonarx, Bernard Roy   +3 more
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Indian public health standards in primary health centers and community health centers in Shimla District of Himachal Pradesh: A descriptive evaluation

CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2016
Introduction: The health planners in India have visualized primary health centers (PHCs) and community health centers (CHCs) as the key healthcare delivery institutions in rural areas.
Raman Chauhan, Salig Ram Mazta, Dineshwar Singh Dhadwal, Sumita Sandhu   +3 more
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Engaging Community Health Centers (CHCs) in Research Partnerships: The Role of Prior Research Experience on Perceived Needs and Challenges

Clinical and Translational Science, 2014
Despite community health centers’ substantial role in local communities and in the broader safety‐net healthcare system, very limited research has been conducted on community health center research experience, infrastructure, or needs from a national ...
Tishra Beeson, Michelle Jester, Michelle Proser, Peter Shin   +3 more
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Communication channels for air quality alerts in the United States

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019
Short-term exposure to air pollution can result in acute health effects, particularly for individuals with respiratory and cardiovascular disease.
Audrey F. Pennington, Kanta Sircar, Joy Hsu, Hatice S. Zahran, Scott A. Damon, Maria C. Mirabelli   +5 more
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Community perspectives on primary health centers in rural Maharashtra: What can we learn for policy?

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
Introduction: Primary Health Centers (PHCs) are intended to be the “backbone” of the Indian public health system. Yet, these do not get utilized as frontline institutions for basic curative care.
Sudha Ramani, Muthusamy Sivakami
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“We are looking at the future right now”: community acceptability of a home-based viral load test device in the context of HIV cure-related research with analytical treatment interruptions in the United States

HIV Research & Clinical Practice, 2022
Background People with HIV (PWH) and community members have advocated for the development of a home-based viral load test device that could make analytical treatment interruptions (ATIs) less burdensome. Objective We assessed community acceptability of a
Karine Dubé, John Kanazawa, Christopher Roebuck, Steven Johnson, William B. Carter, Lynda Dee, Beth Peterson, Kenneth M. Lynn, Linden Lalley-Chareczko, Emily Hiserodt, Sukyung Kim, Daniel Rosenbloom, Brad R. Evans, Melanie Anderson, Daria J. Hazuda, Lisa Shipley, Kevin Bateman, Bonnie J. Howell, Karam Mounzer, Pablo Tebas, Luis J. Montaner   +20 more
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The Use of Community Health Workers in Community Health Centers

Medical Care, 2021
Background: Until 2016, community health centers (CHCs) reported community health workers (CHWs) as part of their overall enabling services workforce, making analyses of CHW use over time infeasible in the annual Uniform Data System (UDS).
Park, Jeongyoung, Regenstein, Marsha, Chong, Nicholas, Onyilofor, Chinelo L.   +3 more
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Community-based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak [PDF]

, 2020
Postmortems on the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa suggest that effective community engagement helped slow transmission by encouraging people to come forward and be tested.
Christensen, Darin, Dube, Oeindrila, Haushofer, Johannes, Siddiqi, Bilal, Voors, Maarten   +4 more
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Challenges and recommendations for measuring time devoted to implementation and intervention activities in health equity-focused, resource-constrained settings: a qualitative analysis

Implementation Science Communications, 2023
Background There is little guidance for conducting health equity-focused economic evaluations of evidence-based practices in resource-constrained settings, particularly with respect to staff time use.
Douglas E. Levy, Deepinder Singh, Kelly A. Aschbrenner, Madeline E. Davies, Leslie Pelton-Cairns, Gina R. Kruse   +5 more
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Trends in Tuberculosis in Taiwan, 2002–2008

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2011
Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important infectious disease in Taiwan. To control TB effectively, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control implemented the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) in 2006, modeled on the World Health Organization global TB control
Hsiu-Yun Lo, Pesus Chou, Shiang-Lin Yang, Cheng-Yi Lee, Hsu-Sung Kuo   +4 more
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