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Lay Worker Health Literacy: A Concept Analysis and Operational Definition

Nursing Forum, 2017
The concept of lay worker health literacy is created by concurrently analyzing and synthesizing two intersecting concepts, lay workers and health literacy. Articulation of this unique intersection is the result of implementing a simplified Wilson's Concept Analysis Procedure. This process incorporates the following components: a) selecting a concept, b)
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Lay workers in primary health care: Victims in the process of social transformation

Social Science & Medicine, 1985
The training and utilization of non-professional Primary Health Care Workers (PHCW's) is currently a major strategy for meeting the minimal health needs of the four-fifths of the world's population without permanent access to care. Increasingly, however, in countries where the wealth is in the hands of the few, PHCW's are become victims of political ...
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Using lay health workers: Case study of a community-based prenatal intervention

Journal of Community Health, 1992
This article reports on the design and implementation of a prenatal outreach and education intervention for low income, Hispanic women living in three migrant and seasonal farmworker communities in Arizona. The program included three major elements: a Spanish language prenatal curriculum; a group of mature Hispanic women recruited from the target ...
J S, Meister, L H, Warrick, J G, de Zapién, A H, Wood   +3 more
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The Role of Lay Workers in Community Health Education: Experiences of the North Karelia Project

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1980
The role of natural community leaders in serving as lay health workers in a comprehensive community health programme has been explored. In rural Finland, nearly 300 persons were trained to detect cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, high-cholesterol diet, high blood pressure) in their communities, and to advise community members of the desirability of
L, Neittaanmäki, K, Koskela, P, Puska, A L, McAlister   +3 more
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Integrating dementia care into primary health services: lay health workers with internal facilitation in Uganda

Aging & Mental Health
Dementia care is underdeveloped in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with limited specialist services. In Uganda's decentralized health system, Health Assistants supervise Lay Health Workers (LHWs), yet dementia care is not part of their remit.
Edith K, Wakida, Godfrey Z, Rukundo, Zohray M, Talib, Alexandra, Lopez-Vera, Samuel, Maling, Christine K, Karungi, Celestino, Obua   +6 more
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Lay health workers in practice

2012
Jane South, Judy White, Mark Gamsu
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Lay food and health workers: are they working?

Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 2008
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“I will not step back”: A Qualitative Study of Lay Mental Health Workers’ Experiences in India

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2021
Abhijit Nadkarni, Urvita Bhatia
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Lay community health workers detecting diabetes

The New Zealand Medical Journal (Print), 1984
G J, Cooper, J C, Nesfield, S, Perera, E, Tito, D J, Scott   +4 more
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Three Lay health workers in practice

2012
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