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Community health workers providing asthma education
Journal of Asthma, 2020Objectives: Children living in urban areas experience disproportionate rates of asthma. Substandard housing conditions in some urban areas contribute to greater exposure to household asthma triggers. This article examines the geographic connection between pediatric asthma and substandard housing in one mid-sized city in Pennsylvania and the ...
Samantha Shaak +3 more
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2017
Community Health Workers (CHW) are an important cadre of health care personnel, particularly in impoverished countries. CHW program began with China’s “Barefoot Doctor” campaign. The Barefoot Doctors were lay people educated to provide basic medical education and care in rural China in the 1950s–1970s. CHWs have evolved over the years and now perform a
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Community Health Workers (CHW) are an important cadre of health care personnel, particularly in impoverished countries. CHW program began with China’s “Barefoot Doctor” campaign. The Barefoot Doctors were lay people educated to provide basic medical education and care in rural China in the 1950s–1970s. CHWs have evolved over the years and now perform a
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State of Evaluation: Community Health Workers
Public Health Nursing, 2003Abstract Disparity groups, especially racial and ethnic minority groups, are at greater risk for poor health yet experience numerous obstacles in accessing health care. Community health workers (CHWs) are indigenous, trusted, and respected members of the underserved community.
Mary Ann, Nemcek, Rosemary, Sabatier
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Pakistan's community health workers.
The Canadian nurse, 1997Pakistan's health characteristics are worse than those of other Asian countries at similar stages of development. Its mortality rate for children under five is 139 per 1,000, and its maternal mortality is 60 per 10,000. Malnutrition in women and children is widespread; 50 per cent of children under five are stunted. Pakistan's population growth rate of
B, Majumdar, Y, Amarsi, B, Carpio
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1992
Abstract This book presents the current place and future role of the community health worker. The majority of the world's population continues to suffer levels of ill-health and death that are only a distant memory in prosperous countries. Approaches to alleviating this burden are well-known, and range from specific medical interventions
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Abstract This book presents the current place and future role of the community health worker. The majority of the world's population continues to suffer levels of ill-health and death that are only a distant memory in prosperous countries. Approaches to alleviating this burden are well-known, and range from specific medical interventions
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Community Health Worker Interventions
2018Interventions involving community health workers (CHWs) are another mechanism to engage vulnerable patient populations and address healthcare disparities. As defined by the American Public Health Association in 2009, CHWs are “frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community served”
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Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2015
Elizabeth Lee Rosenthal, Noelle Wiggins
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Elizabeth Lee Rosenthal, Noelle Wiggins
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Community health-workers: scaling up programmes
The Lancet, 2007In todays Lancet Andy Haines and colleagues re view the changing fortunes of community health-worker (CHW) programmes and the current favouring of large-scale interventions by CHWs. They present adequate evidence that CHWs are necessary and effective but caution that success depends on specific contexts and that effectiveness in large-scale programmes ...
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Cancer risk among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: A review
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Paolo Boffetta +2 more
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