Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Dec 2023
Report describing challenges in ensuring that all Virginians have equitable access oral healthcare, and offering an actionable framework for addressing them. Features statistics on the Virginia oral healthcare workforce, including numbers of dentists and dental hygienists, numbers of dentists treating Medicaid patients by year from 2012-2022, and a map showing dental Health Professional Shortage Areas. Includes information about the Virginia state loan repayment program for eligible providers.
...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Loans...
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 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: Jan 2015
Discusses a community-based participatory method providing cancer research training to promotores and to assess their capability to disseminate cancer research information to Latinos in rural Kansas.
...Community health workers · Culture · Health literacy · Health workforce education and training · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jan 2023
Evaluates and discusses patient access to oral healthcare in Pennsylvania. Provides demographic and well-being information, and analysis of variables affecting workforce outcomes and access to care. Features statistics with breakdowns by urban and rural areas.
...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Health workforce education and training · Health...
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...
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...
Reviewed: Jan 17, 2024
The Diabetes Master Clinician Program helps rural Florida primary care providers implement quality improvement initiatives to address chronic care.
...community health workers and quality improvement strategies for cardiovascular disease outcomes. Theories, Models, and Strategies...
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: Jul 30, 2026
Smiles Across Montana provides dental healthcare services, education, and community outreach to rural Montanans.
...community health workers who work collaboratively to ensure that oral health is a gateway to broader...