Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Reviewed: Mar 11, 2026
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...
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: May 2021
Examines the COVID-19 response, including testing, contact tracing, and vaccination efforts, of HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grantees. Discusses challenges related to vaccination efforts to reach rural individuals with substance use disorder/opioid use disorder and other rural residents.
...Community health workers · Illicit drug use · Prescription drug misuse · Public health · Statistics and data · Vaccination...
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 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...
Reviewed: Jan 9, 2025
A health promotion program in the New Mexico border region that addresses diabetes prevention and control, behavioral health, and immunization.
...Community health workers · Diabetes · Mental health conditions · Public health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Vaccination New Mexico...
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...
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
A multidisciplinary certificate program for certain health professions students in Oregon that offers opportunities for hands-on training, experience in rural communities, and networking with other students and professionals.
...Community health workers and other paraprofessionals Enhancing knowledge in virtual learning and telehealth Students should...