Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Reviewed: Mar 31, 2025
A sustainable, community-wide prevention program targeting cardiovascular diseases, undertaken over a 40-year period in a low-income area of rural Maine.
...community health workers, and volunteers Using the workplace to conveniently initiate cardiovascular risk screenings with...
Date: Aug 28, 2024
Two FORHP Delta States Rural Development Network grantees are improving children's health in rural Louisiana schools. The Adolescent Pre-Diabetes Prevention Program screens high school students and provides Healthy Lifestyle lessons, while the EatMoveGrow program increases nutrition and physical activity opportunities in elementary schools. - The Rural Monitor
...community health workers (CHWs) to connect students and families with resources such as housing assistance...
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Date: Feb 5, 2020
National Rural Health Association CEO Alan Morgan discusses his organization's work on the national and global stages and shares his rural health predictions for 2020. - The Rural Monitor
...community health workers. This is something that has been highlighted and has been proven to be an effective...
Date: May 31, 2017
Public agencies and private nonprofit groups have mutual interests in improving the health of rural Americans. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and philanthropy organizations worked together to create a unique funding opportunity, the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Program. Two health care organizations and their philanthropy partners share how coordinated efforts benefit patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. - The Rural Monitor
...community health workers (CHWs). Williamson's network director, Jenny Hudson, said their model has significant...
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.
...Community health workers · Frontier and remote areas · Healthcare quality · Mental health · Networking and collaboration · Primary...
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.
...Community health workers · Culture · Food security and nutrition · Health literacy · Obesity and weight control · Physical...
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: Apr 2015
Describes the benefits and lessons learned of a New Mexico state-wide primary care improvement infrastructure program - Health Extension Rural Offices (HERO) - to address social determinants of health. Through the use of extension agents (HEROs) information about patient centered medical homes (PCMH) and university resources was provided to 34 participating small primary care clinics of which half were rural. Program was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants.
...Research and Quality Community health workers · Medical homes · Primary care · Social determinants of health · New Mexico...
Reviewed: Mar 4, 2026
DOVE is a brochure-based and safety planning intervention for pregnant women and mothers with infants experiencing interpersonal violence.
...community health worker who may or may not work in an evidence-based home visiting...