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Community health workers

BMJ, 2007
The worldwide shortage of healthcare staff means that necessary treatments are often not delivered. Lay people, without full medical training, are stepping up to meet local needs, as Vijaya Bhatt and Aaradhana Jha ...
Vijaya Raj Bhatt, Aaradhana Jivendra Jha
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Community Health Workers Should be Worker Advocates

NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2022
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline health workers who connect underserved populations to the health care system, provide health education, and advocate for their clients. CHWs can be particularly helpful to their clients in addressing social determinants of health that affect many chronic illnesses such as asthma, high blood pressure, poor ...
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Community Health Workers

2021
Abstract Community health workers (CHWs) represent an important cadre of health workers, particularly in impoverished countries. The CHW program began with China’s barefoot doctor campaign. The barefoot doctors were laypeople who were educated to provide basic medical education and care in rural China in the 1950s to the 1970s. CHWs have
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Community Health Workers and Community Advocacy: Addressing Health Disparities

Journal of Community Health, 2008
The Community Health Worker model is recognized nationally as a means to address glaring inequities in the burden of adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the United States. This study explored Arizona CHW involvement in advocacy beyond the individual patient level into the realm of advocating for community level ...
Maia, Ingram   +4 more
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Community Health Workers

Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline health workers who typically come from the communities they serve. CHWs provide essential caregiving to bridge gaps in care and to address social determinants of health. These workers, known by many distinct titles, provide caregiving in countries throughout the world and have storied histories stretching ...
Ryan I. Logan   +2 more
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Using community health workers:

Annals of Anthropological Practice, 2015
In this article, we use semistructured interviews and documents produced by Ethiopian government officials and international health donors to examine two key features of the nation's community health worker (CHW) program: (1) the process and criteria of selecting community health workers; and (2) policies, rhetoric, and experiences of payment and ...
KENNETH MAES   +3 more
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