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Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations.
Dulce J. Jiménez, Omar Gomez, Ruby Meraz, Amanda M. Pollitt, Linnea Evans, Naomi Lee, Matt Ignacio, Katherine Garcia, Richard Redondo, Floribella Redondo, Heather J. Williamson, Sabrina Oesterle, Sairam Parthasarathy, Samantha Sabo   +13 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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Assessing infant and young child feeding priorities to inform the development of a nutrition social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) strategy during a pandemic threat

The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2022
Objectives: This study was undertaken to identify stakeholder needs and wants in relation to an Infant and Young Child Feeding, Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) strategy for the 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member ...
T Turk, A Poonawala, S Shulman, P Sepoloane   +3 more
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Creating information resources and trainings for farmworker-serving community health workers

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2022
Background: Farmworker-serving community health workers have limited access to farmworker health research findings, training, and education resources. With funding from the National Library of Medicine, we are working to improve the health information ...
Jamie E. Bloss, Catherine E. LePrevost, Leslie E. Cofie, Joseph G. L. Lee   +3 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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Community health worker team integration in Medicaid managed care: Insights from a national study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionCommunity health workers (CHWs) have historically worked in community-based settings. Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are integrating CHWs into their teams, largely to support social determinants of health.
Ashley Wennerstrom, Ashley Wennerstrom, Catherine G. Haywood, Denise O. Smith, Dakshu Jindal, Carl Rush, Geoffrey W. Wilkinson   +6 more
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On the front line of primary health care: the profile of community health workers in rural Quechua communities in Peru. [PDF]

, 2006
OBJECTIVE: To describe the profile of community health workers--health promoters, traditional birth attendants and traditional healers--in rural Quechua communities from Ayacucho, Peru. METHODS: Basic quantitative and qualitative information was gathered
Miranda J Jaime, Malca Rosa, Brown, R. P., Angela Brown, Zumaran Adriana, Brown Angela, Adriana Zumaran, Brown, Angela, Miranda, J Jaime, Malca, Rosa, Zumaran, Adriana, Rosa Malca, J Jaime Miranda, Bulman, T. J.   +13 more
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Measuring motivation among close-to-community health workers: developing the CTC Provider Motivational Indicator Scale across six countries

Human Resources for Health, 2020
Background Close-to-community (CTC) health service providers are a cost-effective and important resource in the promotion of and increasing access to health services.
Frédérique Vallières, Maryse Kok, Ilias Mahmud, Malabika Sarker, Philippa Jeacocke, Robinson Karuga, Licia Limato, Aschenaki Z. Kea, Kingsley Chikaphupha, Mohsin Sidat, Brynne Gilmore, Miriam Taegtmeyer   +11 more
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS: FOUR LESSONS FROM INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF COMMUNITY-BASED WORKERS

Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2007
Although the Department of Health has been using community health workers since 1994 (Friedman, 2002), it was not until 2003 that the South African government introduced the Community Development Workers Initiative (Department of Provincial and Local ...
Deidré van Rooyen
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The implementation of a community-centered first aid education program for older adults—community health workers perceived barriers

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Older adults are a high-risk group for accidental injuries, and strengthening training in first aid for older adults can improve their first aid capabilities and minimize their post-accident mortality. Community health workers are the greatest
Guo Yin, Linghui Chen, Yuanrong Wu, Fei Zhao, Qian Zhu, Siting Lin   +5 more
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