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Designing a Community Health Worker (CHW) Certificate Training that Centers Marginalized Youth’s Health and Wellness

Journal of Community Medicine and Health Solutions
The genesis of the youth Community Health Worker (CHW) and Citizen/Community Science (CS) training is rooted in interdisciplinary research and the lived experiences of families in Chicago and Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mendenhall and colleagues’ (Drs. Robinson, Roberts and Rodriquez-Zas) South Chicago’s Black Mothers’ Resiliency Project provide dinsights ...
Ruby Mendenhall, Tramayne Butler-DeLong, Meggan J Lee, Kiara Langford   +3 more
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Empowering Community Health Workers in Japan: Determinants of Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Competency

Background: Community health workers (CHWs), hailing from the general populace, play a pivotal role in fortifying healthcare systems, with a primary focus on mitigating non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and elevating overall life expectancy. To assess the
Yuka Iwata, Etsuko Tadaka, Yuki Imamatsu, Ayuka Yokoyama, Yuko Tanaka   +4 more
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Embedding Community Health Workers (CHWs) in a Safety-Net Primary Care Setting for Complex Care in Los Angeles Through the Care Connections Program: Perspectives from CHWs and Patients

, 2020
No abstract available.“Embedding Community Health Workers (CHWs) in a Safety-Net Primary Care Setting for Complex Care in Los Angeles Through the Care Connections Program: Perspectives from CHWs and Patients.” Poster presentation accepted, with Brown AF,
Lydia Z. Dixon
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Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Over thirty years have passed since the Alma-Ata Declaration on primary health care in 1978. Many governments in the first decade following the declaration responded by developing national programmes of community health workers (CHWs), but ...
Le May Alex, Alex Le May, Lewin, Simon, Jason B Christopher, Christopher, Jason B, Le May, Alex, Ross, David A, Simon Lewin, Lewin Simon, Christopher Jason B, Ross David A, David A Ross   +11 more
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Improving local health through community health workers in Cambodia: challenges and solutions

Human Resources for Health, 2018
Background Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are an important link between the public health system and the community. The ‘Community Participation Policy for Health’ in Cambodia identifies CHWs as key to local health promotion and as a critical ...
Kim Ozano, Padam Simkhada, Khem Thann, Rose Khatri   +3 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of a Two-Stage Sequential Screening Strategy Implemented by Community Health Workers (CHWs) to Identify Individuals with COPD in Rural India. [PDF]

Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis, 2021
Jarhyan P, Hutchinson A, Khatkar R, Kondal D, Botti M, Prabhakaran D, Mohan S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Putting community health workers on the map: Toward a geography of community health workers

, 2022
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDIn many contexts community health workers (CHWs) are intended to expand the geographical accessibility of integrated primary health care (PHC) services at community level, including prevention, promotive, and curative health ...
Oliphant, Nicholas
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The global role, impact, and limitations of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in breast cancer screening: a scoping review and recommendations to promote health equity for all. [PDF]

Glob Health Action, 2021
Hand T, Rosseau NA, Stiles CE, Sheih T, Ghandakly E, Oluwasanu M, Olopade OI.   +6 more
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Engaging Community Health Workers in Primary Care Practices: Provider Understanding of Roles, Benefits, and Barriers

Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly addressing health disparities in primary care settings; however, there is little information about how primary care practitioners (PCPs) interact with CHWs or perceive CHW roles. We examined PCP engagement
Thompson, Hope L, Bermudez, Andrea Torres, Reza, Avid, Holman, Dawn M, Townsend, Julie S, Wennerstrom, Ashley, Tharpe, Felicia Solomon, Rohan, Elizabeth A   +7 more
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Machine learning in a time of COVID-19 - Can machine learning support Community Health Workers (CHWs) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) in the new normal? [PDF]

J Glob Health, 2021
Baxter MS, White A, Lahti M, Murto T, Evans J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source