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161. Lake Okeechobee Rural Health Network - RHIhub Health Literacy Toolkit - Toolkits
Added: Sep 14, 2022

Lake Okeechobee Rural Health Network collaborates with community health workers to provide health services to rural areas in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, including a health literacy workshop known as Your Health Matters.

...Health Network - RHIhub Health Literacy Toolkit --- Lake Okeechobee Rural Health Network collaborates with community health workers...

162. Physical Activity Change after a Promotora-Led Intervention in Low-Income Mexican American Women Residing in South Texas - Resources
Date: Jun 2019

Examines the physical activity preferences and changes after a community health worker (CHW) led intervention to decrease sedentary time in 620 Mexican American women from mostly rural colonias settlements in Hidalgo County, South Texas on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Community Health Activities Model Program for Seniors Physical Activity (CHAMPS) instrument was used to predict an increase in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

...Health. 2019,(19), 782. Date 06/2019 Type Document Tagged as Community health workers · Hispanic or Latino...

163. Behavioral and Subjective Health Changes in US and Mexico Border Residing Participants in Two Promotora-Led Chronic Disease Prevention Interventions - Resources
Date: Dec 2018

Study of two community health worker (CHW) chronic disease prevention programs serving Mexico-born residents of the U.S-Mexico border region: one in a rural Arizona community and one in an urban community in Sonora, Mexico. Discusses challenges related to healthy diet, physical activity, and social support as risk factors for obesity and diabetes. Analyzes data from self-report assessments to evaluate behavioral and subjective health improvements over 6 months of the intervention programs.

...Health Changes in US and Mexico Border Residing Participants in Two Promotora-Led Chronic Disease Prevention Interventions --- Study of two community health worker...

164. Minnesota Pipeline Program Dual Training Grants - Funding
Deadline: Apr 22, 2024

Funding for employers in Minnesota to cover the costs of degree, certificate, and/or recognized credential programs for their permanent employees who are seeking training in high-need industries and occupations, including healthcare.

...health · Behavioral health workforce · Community health workers · Community paramedicine · Dental workforce · Educational attainment · Emergency medical...

165. Care Coordination for Community Transitions for Individuals Post-Stroke Returning to Low-Resource Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Jun 2017

Assesses the Kentucky Care Coordination for Community Transitions (KC3T) program of employing a specially trained community health worker (CHW) as a navigator to aid in the transition of individuals who have had a stroke from acute in-patient care to their rural community. The goal of the study was to determine the community navigation and resources required by people who have had a stroke in order to transition back to rural communities with few resources and to facilitate positive health outcomes.

...Community Transitions for Individuals Post-Stroke Returning to Low-Resource Rural Communities --- Assesses the Kentucky Care Coordination for Community Transitions (KC3T) program of employing a specially trained community health worker...

166. Kentucky Community Fights Back against Cardiovascular Disease - Resources
Date: Jun 2019

Results of a study conducted in Appalachian Kentucky, exploring a program in which community health workers helped promote healthy eating, physical activity, stress reduction, and other activities to manage risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

...Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers · Mental health conditions · Physical activity · Tobacco use · Kentucky...

167. Role of Rural Libraries in Promoting Digital Health Literacy - Resources
Date: Mar 2023

Webinar highlighting a rural library's efforts to increase digital health literacy and healthcare access in rural Texas. Discusses telehealth, broadband access inequities and digital literacy, transportation issues, aging in place, community health workers working in libraries, emergency response, circulating medical equipment, and summer meals for students. Transcript available in the video description.

...Community health workers · Emergency preparedness and response · Food security and nutrition · Health literacy · Home and community...

168. Promotoras de Salud in a Father-Focused Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Border Communities: Approaches and Lessons Learned from Collaboration - Resources
Date: Sep 2022

Explores the role community health workers, or promotoras de salud, played in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a father-focused health program for rural Latino communities on the U.S.-Mexico border. Highlights some of the health and wellness issues for children and adults in the poor and underserved colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border.

...Community health workers · Families · Hispanic or Latino · Immigrants · Poverty · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

169. PeaceHealth Is Vaccinating Rural America Through Peer-to-Peer Outreach - Resources
Date: May 2021

Describes how PeaceHealth is promoting COVID-19 vaccines among farmworkers in rural Washington. Discusses the role of community health workers and digital media in educating people about the importance of vaccination.

...Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health disparities · Hispanic or Latino · Vaccination · Wellness, health promotion...

170. Obesity in Rural America, with Jennifer Conner and Jason Lofton – Exploring Rural Health Podcast - Podcast Episode
Date: Nov 1, 2022

The November 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Jennifer Conner, DrPH, an associate professor with the Delta Population Health Institute at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, and Jason Lofton, MD, a family physician at the Lofton Family Clinic in De Queen, Arkansas, in a discussion about rural obesity and how rural patients can live their healthiest life.

...community health worker. You know, the schools, the mayor, the public health, you know, and how do we, I think...