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Evaluating the impact of community health worker certification in Massachusetts: Design, methods, and anticipated results of the Massachusetts community health worker workforce survey

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundProfessional certification of community health workers (CHWs) is a debated topic. Although intended to promote CHWs, certification may have unintended impacts given the grassroots nature of the workforce.
Victoria M. Nielsen, W. W. Sanouri Ursprung, Glory Song, Gail Hirsch, Theresa Mason, Claire Santarelli, Erica Guimaraes, Erica Marshall, Caitlin G. Allen, Pei-Pei Lei, Diane Brown, Bittie Behl-Chadha   +11 more
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Application of the community health worker model in adult asthma and COPD in the U.S.: a systematic review

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019
Background With rising medical costs, stakeholders and healthcare professionals are exploring community-based solutions to relieve the burden of chronic diseases and reduce health care spending. The community health worker (CHW) model is one example that
Trisha M. Parekh, Carla R. Copeland, Mark T. Dransfield, Andrea Cherrington   +3 more
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Association between Emotional Intelligence and Quality of Service Delivery of Health Care Providers

تحقیقات سلامت در جامعه, 2021
Introduction and purpose: Emotional intelligence has a crucial role in organizational performance, especially in the health domains facing high levels of emotions and challenges.
Sima Jalali, Sareh Shakerian
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The public healthcare sector of Mauritius: knowledge of and attitudes toward hearing loss among community health workers

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2023
Mauritius does not have community health workers trained in identifying risk factors for hearing loss or in referring patients for diagnostic testing.
Taslima Foondun, Lidia Pottas, Maggi Soer   +2 more
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Improving health and well-being through community health champions: a thematic evaluation of a programme in Yorkshire and Humber. [PDF]

, 2013
AIMS: The contribution that lay people can make to the public health agenda is being increasingly recognised in research and policy literature. This paper examines the role of lay workers (referred to as 'community health champions') involved in ...
Altogether Better, Attree P, Braun V, Casiday R, Cooper C, Fleury J, Green J, Hennink M, Marmot M, Medley A, Nemcek M, Norris SL, Rhodes SD, Ritchie J, Secretary of State for Health, South J, South J, Swider SM, Turner C, Visram S, Woodall J   +20 more
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Emergency workers' experiences of the use of section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983: interpretative phenomenological investigation. [PDF]

, 2020
AIMS AND METHOD: To explore the experiences of emergency workers dealing with incidents in which section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 is invoked by the police. Data from interviews with police officers and ambulance workers in a London locality were
Daw, Langridge, Smith, Smith, Smith
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Community health workers in Lesotho: Experiences of health promotion activities

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2018
Background: Lesotho adopted primary health care in 1979, and community health workers (CHWs) were included in the programme to focus on health promotion, particularly to reach people in underserved rural areas.
Thato Seutloali, Lizeka Napoles, Nomonde Bam   +2 more
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The ‘community’ in community case management of childhood illnesses in Malawi [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2016
Background: Malawi has achieved a remarkable feat in reducing its under-5 mortality in time to meet its MDG 4 target despite high levels of poverty, low female literacy rates, recurrent economic crises, a severe shortage of human resources for health ...
Wanga Z. Zembe-Mkabile, Debra Jackson, David Sanders, Donela Besada, Karen Daniels, Texas Zamasiya, Tanya Doherty   +6 more
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Community health workers and transitions of care [PDF]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2021
This editorial comments on the article by Ohuabunwa et al .
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Planetary health and the role of community health workers

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
In this era, grand challenges lies in biodiversity loss, climate change, and global noncommunicable diseases signify that planet and humanity are in crisis. Scholarly evidence from human and animal kingdom suggest that there is an optimism in planetary health which can provide a unique and novel concept where efforts toward survival and remediation can
Manas R Behera, Deepanjali Behera, Sudhir K Satpathy   +2 more
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