Website Search Results for: community health workers
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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: 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 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...
Added: Sep 14, 2022
Examples of programs working to improve health literacy in rural communities.
...community health workers. Purchase District Health Department Synopsis: The Purchase District Health Department is working...
Date: Jun 2026
Discusses implementation and findings from a Veterans Health Administration virtual peer support specialist-led support group for women veterans with breast cancer. Discusses experiences of rural program participants.
...Public Health, 23(6), 817 06/2026 Cancer · Community health workers · Social connectedness · Telehealth · Veterans · Women...
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: 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...
Reviewed: Dec 12, 2025
Describes the Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission Outreach Program's comprehensive approach to addressing substance use disorder through prevention, intervention, treatment, case management, and recovery.
...community health worker model and pairs the case coordination services of a peer recovery specialist...
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: Sep 2015
Reports on a qualitative study of a promotora-led oral health education program for low-income, Spanish-speaking parents of children aged 1–5 years, conducted in a rural agricultural city in California.
...Health, 15, 103 09/2015 Community health workers · Families · Oral health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · California...