Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Oct 2024
Describes trends in the supply and distribution of clinicians in primary care, behavioral health, and obstetrical care, as well as dentists, surgeons, community health workers, and home health aides. Examines the availability of workforce data for professions important for rural communities, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using various health workforce data sources for rural health research. Features statistics with breakdowns by 5 levels of population density.
...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health aides and assistants · Health workforce supply and demand · Home...
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.
...community health worker (CHW) chronic disease prevention programs serving Mexico-born residents of the U.S-Mexico...
Date: Mar 2026
Recording of a March 2026 webinar discussing opportunities for including rural age-friendly care in Rural Health Transformation Program work. Includes information on PACE and community health workers.
...community health workers. 03/2026 John A. Hartford Foundation Aging and aging-related services · Community health...
Deadline: Apr 8, 2026
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.
...Community health worker Community paramedic Critical care nurse Dental assistant Dental hygienist Dental therapist Dentist...
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 inpatient 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.
...Health, 42(3), 565-572 06/2017 Cardiovascular disease · Care coordination · Community health workers · Informal caregivers · Statistics and data · Kentucky...
Date: Apr 2025
Notes the challenges of aging in rural communities and highlights the National Rural Age-Friendly Initiative (NRAFI) by the National Rural Health Association and The John A. Hartford Foundation. NRAFI works to promote cross-sector collaboration to address those common challenges. Describes the NRAFI's work to date in creating and disseminating information, training community health workers, and building a networking infrastructure to facilitate collaboration.
...Aging and aging-related services · Community health workers · Health workforce education and training · Networking and collaboration...
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 · Vaccination · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
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...
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 communities on the U.S.-Mexico border. Highlights some of the health and wellness issues for children and adults in the poor and under-resourced colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border.
...Community health workers · Families · Immigrants · Poverty · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Texas...
Date: Sep 2022
Examines barriers and strategies affecting COVID-19 vaccination and testing uptake in rural Latino communities in southwest Florida. Uses data from interviews conducted between March-April 2021 with 25 key stakeholders including rural Latino community members, local leaders, and community health workers.
...Health, 19(18), 11785 09/2022 Access · Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers · Infectious diseases · Vaccination · Florida...