Resources Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Feb 2004
Describes a small pilot study evaluating the effectiveness of a home visitation program using lay health workers. Describes the approach used to evaluate the Low Country Healthy Start Resource Mothers Program, a care coordination program for low-income, African American pregnant women and their infants in two rural South Carolina counties. Reports on the program's impact, including prenatal care, postpartum check-up, well child care, and health outcomes.
...Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center) Tagged as Black or African American · Children and youth · Community health workers...
Date: Jan 2024
Describes the development and implementation of a population health navigation program to reduce barriers to cancer care in underserved communities in Western North Carolina and Northwest South Carolina. Provides data on rural program participants, including barriers to cancer care access, program impact on transportation needs and food insecurity, and rates of participation in clinical cancer research. Also covers Black, Hispanic, and adolescent and young adult program participants.
...Community health workers · Health disparities · Hispanic or Latino · Statistics and data · Transportation · North Carolina · South...
Date: Nov 2012
Describes a collaborative project using promotoras to develop and refine a Spanish language educational flipchart promoting cervical cancer screening and related topics for low-income, Hispanic farmworker women in rural southeast Georgia.
...Community health workers · Health screening · Hispanic or Latino · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jan 2016
Reports on the effectiveness of a weight control intervention using health coaches to target home environments using the Healthy Homes/Healthy Families model. Examines changes in the patients' physical activity, calorie intake, and weight. The intervention focused on overweight and obese women in rural Georgia who were patients of community health centers.
...community health centers. Author(s) Michelle C. Kegler, Regine Haardörfer, Iris C. Alcantara, et al. Citation American Journal of Public Health, 106(1), 143-152 Date 01/2016 Type Document Tagged as Community health workers...
Date: Jan 2015
Discusses a community-based participatory method providing cancer research training to promotores and to assess their capability to disseminate cancer research information to Latinos in rural Kansas.
...Community health workers · Culture and cultural competency · Health literacy · Health workforce education and training · Hispanic...
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, 7(2), 107-112 Date 04/2016 Type Document Tagged as Appalachia · Cardiovascular disease · Community engagement and volunteerism · Community health workers...
Date: Nov 2021
Analysis of a public health intervention addressing hypertension and obesity among low-income Latino populations in the U.S.-Mexico border region in Texas. Discusses the impacts of the intervention in 10 cities and large metro areas, 2 small towns, and 6 rural areas and examines data using the RE-AIM Framework.
...Community health workers · Hispanic or Latino · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · U.S.-Mexico...
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.
...health status among participants. Author(s) Janeth I. Sanchez, Katherine J. Briant, Samantha Wu-Georges, et al. Citation BMC Women's Health, 21(24) Date 01/2021 Type Document Tagged as Community health workers...
Date: Dec 2018
Examines the concepts of health-related deservingness and local moral economics to understand the diversity of moral responses to depression for rural women living in Appalachian Kentucky, where economic distress has contributed to poor mental health. Women from a variety of ages, treatment encounters, work experiences, and family sizes, along with healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds and settings, participated in semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
...Community health workers · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Poverty · Primary care · Statistics and data · Stigma...
Date: Jan 2007
Describes the Colonias Project, a health literacy outreach project using promotoras in low-income Hispanic communities along the Texas-Mexico border.
...Tagged as Community health workers · Health literacy · Hispanic or Latino · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...