Resources Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: 2019
Reports on the Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) program that utilizes community health representatives (CHRs) in the home setting to assist Navajo adults with diabetes management. Discusses CHRs' community-wide health promotion strategies and individualized in-home patient care. Includes results of the program on participant health.
...Alaska Native · Chronic disease management · Community health workers · Diabetes · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Nov 2016
Discusses the findings of a single-case, community-based participatory design study in a frontier community in northern Minnesota to determine the effectiveness of developing a community care team focused on collaboration and care coordination to improve patient outcomes and reduce emergency room use.
...Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 27(4A), 91–115 Date 11/2016 Type Document Tagged as Care coordination · Community health workers...
Date: Aug 2023
Provides a section-by-section overview of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics Act (PREVENT Pandemics Act), enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. Describes the Continuing Education Support for Health Professionals Serving in Rural and Underserved Communities Program, which supports specialty training for primary care providers, as well as other rural-relevant provisions.
...Community health workers · Emergency preparedness and response · Health workforce · Health workforce education and training · Legislation...
Date: Oct 2018
Discusses a study based on post-training surveys from online learning modules providing cancer education for Community Health Aide/Practitioners (CHA/Ps) serving rural Native Alaskan communities. Details CHA/Ps perceptions of the training and how they plan to apply it in their practice.
...Community health workers · Culture and cultural competency · Health literacy · Health workforce education and training · Alaska...
Date: Apr 2024
Describes outcomes of ¡Haz Espacio Para Papi! (HEPP), a nutrition and physical activity intervention for Latino fathers in colonias near the Texas-Mexico border. Provides data on changes in participants' fruit and vegetable intake, skin carotenoids, and healthy dietary behaviors. Discusses approaches to cultural appropriateness and collaboration with promotoras.
...Community health workers · Culture and cultural competency · Families · Food security and nutrition · Hispanic or Latino...
Date: Oct 2013
Highlights a study on changes in health knowledge relating to pesticides of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon. Details the results of participants' pesticide knowledge from pre/post-intervention questionnaires and biological testing.
...health and safety · Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health literacy · Hispanic or Latino · Migrants...
Date: Dec 2018
Investigates the feasibility and effectiveness of Salud Es Vida, an educational group session led by promotoras focused on cervical cancer screening and increased cervical cancer knowledge among immigrant Hispanic/Latina women from farmworker environments. The intervention was conducted in four rural counties of Southeast Georgia and included the development of a toolkit offering a curriculum guide and class activities created in partnership with promotoras.
...Community health workers · Health screening · Hispanic or Latino · Migrants · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion...
Date: Sep 2018
Presents a study on the effectiveness of a promotora-led intervention aimed at improving the rates of physical activity among low-income Mexican-American women in rural South Texas.
...Health, 51(5), 234-241 Date 09/2018 Type Document Tagged as Community health workers · Hispanic...
Date: May 2017
Highlights the activities conducted by promotoras during an intervention study using community asset mapping (CAM) to identify factors that may facilitate or create barriers to physical activity among Latina residents in the U.S.-Mexico border region of Texas.
...Health Nursing, 34(3), 267-275 Date 05/2017 Type Document Tagged as Community health workers...
Date: Sep 2015
Reports on a qualitative study of a promotora-led oral health education program for low-income, Spanish-speaking parents of children aged 1–5 years, conducted in a rural agricultural city in California.
...Community health workers · Families · Hispanic or Latino · Oral health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...