Website Search Results for: community health workers
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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...
Date: Jan 2022
Review of research literature to assess whether policy initiatives targeting primary care access for rural and underserved populations has been effective in reducing healthcare disparities. Initiatives considered include availability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability, and acceptability.
...Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Graduate medical education · Health disparities · Health workforce supply...
Reviewed: Jan 17, 2024
The Diabetes Master Clinician Program helps rural Florida primary care providers implement quality improvement initiatives to address chronic care.
...community health workers and quality improvement strategies for cardiovascular disease outcomes. Theories, Models, and Strategies...
Reviewed: Apr 4, 2025
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...
Date: Feb 2019
Reports on a pilot study of utilizing bilingual promotoras as patient navigators to help cancer patients and their families in 3 rural counties of southwest New Mexico navigate the healthcare system from cancer diagnosis to treatment.
...Education, 34(1), 173-179 02/2019 Access · Cancer · Community health workers · Statistics and data · New Mexico...
Date: Jan 2016
Reports on the effectiveness of a weight control intervention using health coaches to target home environments using the Healthy Homes/Healthy Families model. Examines changes in the patients' physical activity, calorie intake, and weight. The intervention focused on overweight and obese women in rural Georgia who were patients of community health centers.
...Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness...
Date: Jan 2024
Describes the development and implementation of a population health navigation program to reduce barriers to cancer care in underserved communities in Western North Carolina and Northwest South Carolina. Provides data on rural program participants, including barriers to cancer care access, program impact on transportation needs and food insecurity, and rates of participation in clinical cancer research. Also covers Black, Hispanic, and adolescent and young adult program participants.
...Children and youth · Community health workers · Health disparities · Statistics and data · Transportation · North Carolina · South Carolina...
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: Jan 2007
Describes the Colonias Project, a health literacy outreach project using promotoras in low-income Hispanic communities along the Texas-Mexico border.
...Association, 95(1), 31-39 01/2007 Community health workers · Health literacy · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...
Date: Nov 2024
Examines the physical activity outcomes of ¡Haz Espacio Para Papi! (HEPP), a promotora-delivered nutrition and physical activity intervention for Latino families in colonias near the Texas-Mexico border. Provides data on change in physical activity among fathers, children, and mothers, and discusses physical activity-related negative health outcomes of Mexican-heritage families in colonias.
...Community health workers · Culture · Families · Men · Physical activity · Statistics and data · U.S.-Mexico Border Region...