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Resources Search Results for: community health workers

188 Resources webpages matched your search. Here are matches 111 - 120:

111. Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force: Improving Rural Health Care Across Tennessee
Date: Jun 2023

Report from the Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force. Offers recommendations to the state in the areas of access to care, workforce development, and social drivers of health. Discusses rural health research and advocacy, health insurance, telemedicine, workforce training, grants and loans, and more.

...Community health workers · Financial aid for health career education · Grant writing · Health insurance · Health workforce...

112. Transforming Lives at the Border: How a Rural Library in San Elizario is Changing the Game
Date: Dec 2024

Describes how the Pete Herrera Library functions as a hub for healthcare, human services, education, and more in the rural, border community of San Elizario, Texas. Highlights the library's initiatives and strategies for supporting community health and wellness in a predominantly Spanish-speaking, under-resourced community.

...Health Tagged as Access · Community health workers · Service delivery models · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...

113. Access to Oral Health Workforce Report: Part II
Date: Jan 2023

Evaluates and discusses patient access to oral healthcare in Pennsylvania. Provides demographic and well-being information, and analysis of variables affecting workforce outcomes and access to care. Features statistics with breakdowns by urban and rural areas.

...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Health workforce education and training · Health...

114. 2022 Behavioral Health Workforce Assessment: A Report of the Behavioral Health Workforce Advisory Committee
Date: Dec 2022

Details the results of a study analyzing the occupations, roles, size, distribution, career pathways, demand, policy, and practice issues for the behavioral health workforce in the state of Washington. Includes recommendations to address workforce-related barriers and improve access to behavioral healthcare, and provides rural specific information.

...Community health workers · Health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...

115. Project ECHO's Complex Care Initiative: Building Capacity to Help "Superutilizers" in Underserved Communities
Date: Aug 2016

Describes a case study from the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) program, which uses telehealth to support primary care clinicians in underserved areas. Focuses on a project targeting Medicaid beneficiaries with substance abuse and mental health issues, with details on two primary care teams being supported, including one in a rural New Mexico community.

...Community health workers · Health workforce education and training · Medicaid · Mental health · Primary care · Substance use and misuse...

116. Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care
Date: Oct 2017

Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit corporation that established a pilot program to improve the health of rural patients through the use of technology and interdisciplinary care teams working together in Montana's Flathead Valley. Describes a $1 million innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to support their use of ReSource Teams and help care for high-cost, high-need Medicare patients in the region.

...Community Health Workers Connect with Patients in Rural Montana Description Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health...

117. Advancing Health Equity through Primary Care Policy: Priorities and Recommendations for California
Date: Aug 2024

Provides policy recommendations to improve access to primary care and improve health equity in California, summarizing perspectives and conclusions from policy, primary care, and health equity experts who participated in the 2023 Summit on Primary Care Policy to Advance Health Equity. Covers topics including engagement with community organizations, workforce development, access to care, data sharing, payment, and accountability. Discusses people who live in rural areas and other underserved populations throughout.

...Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Financial aid for health career education · Health disparities...

118. Promising Practice: Educational Partnership Reaches Rural California Communities
Date: Aug 2019

Details a promising practice that works to expand health literacy among rural Latinos in California through a partnership between the California State Office of Rural Health and the California Department of Public Health's Office of Binational Border Health. Details the way the program is reaching rural Latinos through community health worker/promotores training.

...Health Tagged as Community health workers · Health literacy · Public health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · California...

119. Activating Patients for Sustained Chronic Disease Self-Management: Thinking Beyond Clinical Outcomes
Date: Apr 2016

Describes the Expanded Health Coaches for Hypertension Control (EHCHC) project to increase the proportion of adults 45 years and older to self-manage their hypertension. Discusses how a primary care practice and a community-based program can work together to improve patient knowledge and support readiness for behavior change through various channels, including the use of trained volunteer community health coaches.

...Community health workers · Physical activity · Population health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

120. Eat Healthy, Be Active Community Workshops Implemented with Rural Hispanic Women
Date: Jan 2021

Describes a pilot study investigating whether delivering Eat Healthy, Be Active (EHBA) workshops through promotoras is a practical and culturally relevant method for encouraging healthy lifestyle behaviors and reducing obesity among Hispanic women in rural areas of Washington state. Includes data and statistics, with information on changes in nutrition label literacy, food insecurity, health behaviors, and health status among participants.

...Community health workers · Culture · Food security and nutrition · Health literacy · Obesity and weight control · Physical...