Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Feb 2019
Provides actionable recommendations for developing California's health workforce, addressing rural throughout. Discusses the state's population health, current health workforce challenges, healthcare delivery transformation, and more. The commission was convened by major health philanthropies to develop a comprehensive California health workforce strategy and was composed of state leaders in health, policy, education, and workforce development.
...Community health workers · Graduate medical education · Health career pathways · Health workforce supply and demand · Nurse...
Date: Aug 2024
Provides policy recommendations to improve access to primary care and improve health equity in California, summarizing perspectives and conclusions from policy, primary care, and health equity experts who participated in the 2023 Summit on Primary Care Policy to Advance Health Equity. Covers topics including engagement with community organizations, workforce development, access to care, data sharing, payment, and accountability. Discusses people who live in rural areas and other underserved populations throughout.
...Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Financial aid for health career education · Health career...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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...