Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Deadline: Sep 30, 2024
A multidisciplinary certificate program for certain health professions students in Nebraska that offers opportunities for hands-on training, experience in rural and underserved communities, and networking with other students and professionals.
...Community health workers · Culture · Dental workforce · Health occupations · Integrated service delivery · Interprofessional training of the health...
Reviewed: Sep 30, 2025
Summary information for the organization National Center for Farmworker Health, including related information from this organization listed on the RHIhub website.
...involved in farmworker health. Agricultural Health and Safety · Community Health Workers · Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Health...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
Date: Dec 2024
Identifies trends and provides policy recommendations related to value based care and quality improvement in Texas. Discusses rural healthcare access and workforce throughout and highlights key reports focusing on rural health.
...Community health workers · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare quality · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models...
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: Jun 2023
Report from the Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force. Offers recommendations to the state in the areas of access to care, workforce development, and social drivers of health. Discusses rural health research and advocacy, health insurance, telemedicine, workforce training, grants and loans, and more.
...Community health workers · Financial aid for health career education · Grant writing · Health insurance · Health workforce...