Website Search Results for: community health workers
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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.
...Nursing, 34(3), 267-275 05/2017 Community health workers · Physical activity · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...
Date: Jun 2015
Investigates the knowledge and beliefs among rural Latina immigrant women in southeastern Georgia about the causes of cervical cancer and apparent barriers to cervical cancer screening. A cross-sectional survey of 39 Mexican women was conducted and the information gathered was applied to inform and test the development and effect of using trained lay health advisors or promotoras to increase compliance with cervical cancer screening.
...Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
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 · Migrants · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
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.
...Offices of Rural Health Community health workers · Health literacy · Public health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · California...
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...
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 · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Women...
Date: Aug 5, 2015
Finger Lakes Community Health, a rural Federally Qualified Health Center, created an open access telehealth network to improve efficiency and protect their staff, after two separate traffic accidents involving FLCH providers. - The Rural Monitor
...community health worker suffered brain damage from being hit head-on by another vehicle after...
Date: Oct 2015
Policy brief describing the driving forces behind rural health disparities in Appalachian Kentucky. Offers nationally relevant recommendations for addressing these challenges. Discusses rural and urban differences in life expectancy and mortality rates, and other significant factors including behavioral health, substance abuse, population health, trauma care, and transportation.
...Community health workers · Emergency department and urgent care services · Mortality · Population health · Rural-urban differences...
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...
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...