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Processes for Implementing Community Health Worker Workforce Development Initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Introduction: The objective of this observational, cross-sectional study was to identify, document, and assess the progress made to date in implementing various processes involved in statewide community health worker (CHW) workforce development ...
Colleen Barbero, Theresa Mason, Carl Rush, Meredith Sugarman, Aunima R. Bhuiya, Erika B. Fulmer, Jill Feldstein, Naomi Cottoms, Ashley Wennerstrom, Ashley Wennerstrom   +9 more
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Community health worker-led interventions for hypertension. [PDF]

Cochrane Database Syst Rev
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of community health worker-led interventions on controlling blood pressure for people with hypertension.
Mao S, Liu L, Wang T, Cao Y.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Training and experience outperform literacy and formal education as predictors of community health worker knowledge and performance, results from Rongo sub-county, Kenya

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionThere is a growing recognition that Community Health Workers are effective at improving health outcomes and expanding health access. However, the design elements that lead to high-quality Community Health Worker programing are relatively ...
Ash Rogers, Lou L. Goore, Jane Wamae, Joseph R. Starnes, Stephen O Okong’o, Vincent Okoth, Sandra Mudhune   +6 more
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Skills2Care: An innovative, cooperative learning programme for community health workers in South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2021
Background: Community health workers (CHWs) hold potential to support universal health coverage and better health for vulnerable communities. They are integral to the re-engineered Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy, introduced in South Africa in 2011 ...
Therese M. Boulle, Paul Cromhout, Khuzwayo August, Dave Woods   +3 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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A feasibility study of the community health worker model for garden-based food systems programming

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023
Underserved communities, including those of Black, Indigenous, and people of color, experience unequal access to food systems resources and pro­gramming.
Maria DeNunzio, Elena Serrano, Vivica Kraak, Melissa Chase, Sarah Misyak   +4 more
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Experiences of participating in a problem-solving intervention with workplace involvement in Swedish primary health care: a qualitative study from rehabilitation coordinator's, employee's, and manager's perspectives

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Work-directed interventions that include problem-solving can reduce the number of sickness absence days. The effect of combining a problem-solving intervention with involvement of the employer is currently being tested in primary care in ...
Ida Karlsson, Lydia Kwak, Iben Axén, Gunnar Bergström, Ute Bültmann, Kristina Holmgren, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg   +6 more
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Prevention of sick leave at the workplace: design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a problem-solving intervention among employees with common mental disorders

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Common mental disorders are highly prevalent in the working population, affecting about 1 in 5 persons in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.
E. Björk Brämberg, B. Arapovic-Johansson, U. Bültmann, P. Svedberg, G. Bergström   +4 more
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Patient and Community Health Worker Perceptions of Community Health Worker Clinical Integration [PDF]

Journal of Community Health, 2018
Traditional community health workers (CHWs) are expanding their role into clinical settings (cCHW) to support patients with care coordination and advocacy services. We investigated the potential to integrate cCHWs, via evaluation of patients' and CHWs' key demographics, needs, and abilities.
Charlotte M. Lewis, Thelma Gamboa-Maldonado, Juan Carlos Belliard, Anna Nelson, Susanne Montgomery   +4 more
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Correlation of Oral Health Education by Community Health Workers with Changes in Oral Health Practices in Migrant Populations in Washington State

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2021
Introduction An important question for oral health education is whether knowledge gained during lay-led workshops is retained and applied in daily practice.
Ileana Maria Ponce-Gonzalez, Allen D. Cheadle, Michael Leo Parchman   +2 more
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