Skip to main content
Rural Health Information Hub

Website Search Results for: community health workers

707 webpages matched your search. Here are matches 381 - 390:

381. Montana AHEC Scholars - HRSA: Area Health Education Center (AHEC) - Resources
Date: May 2025

Highlights the Montana AHEC Scholars Program, which provides interdisciplinary training in behavioral health integration, telehealth, and social determinants of health, among other topics, to improve the quality and access to care in rural communities.

...Community health workers · Integrated service delivery · Interprofessional training of the health workforce · Nurse practitioners and other...

382. Promising Practice: Educational Partnership Reaches Rural California Communities - Resources
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...

383. Salud es Vida: A Cervical Cancer Screening Intervention for Rural Latina Immigrant Women - Resources
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...

384. Transforming Lives at the Border: How a Rural Library in San Elizario is Changing the Game - Resources
Date: Dec 2024

Describes how the Pete Herrera Library functions as a hub for healthcare, human services, education, and more in the rural, border community of San Elizario, Texas. Highlights the library's initiatives and strategies for supporting community health and wellness in a predominantly Spanish-speaking, under-resourced community.

...Foundation for Mental Health Access · Community health workers · Service delivery models · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...

385. MedlinePlus and the Challenge of Low Health Literacy: Findings From the Colonias Project - Resources
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...

386. Cultural Beliefs and Understandings of Cervical Cancer Among Mexican Immigrant Women in Southeast Georgia - Resources
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...

387. Physical Activity Outcomes of a Culturally Tailored, Father-Focused, and Family-Centered Health Promotion Program for Mexican-Heritage Families: ¡Haz Espacio Para Papi! (Make Room for Daddy) - Resources
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...

388. Mortality and Life Expectancy in Rural America: Connecting the Health and Human Service Safety Nets to Improve Health Outcomes over the Life Course - Resources
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...

389. Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care - Resources
Date: Oct 2017

Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit corporation that established a pilot program to improve the health of rural patients through the use of technology and interdisciplinary care teams working together in Montana's Flathead Valley. Describes a $1 million innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to support their use of ReSource Teams and help care for high-cost, high-need Medicare patients in the region.

...Community Health Workers Connect with Patients in Rural Montana Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit...

390. Refinement of an Educational Toolkit to Promote Cervical Cancer Screening among Hispanic Immigrant Women in Rural Southern Georgia - Resources
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...