Website Search Results for: community health workers
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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: Feb 2019
Reports on a pilot study of utilizing bilingual promotoras as patient navigators to help cancer patients and their families in 3 rural counties of southwest New Mexico navigate the healthcare system from cancer diagnosis to treatment.
...Education, 34(1), 173-179 02/2019 Access · Cancer · Community health workers · Statistics and data · New Mexico...
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...
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...
Date: Nov 2021
Analysis of a public health intervention addressing hypertension and obesity among low-income Latino populations in the U.S.-Mexico border region in Texas. Discusses the impacts of the intervention in 10 cities and large metro areas, 2 small towns, and 6 rural areas and examines data using the RE-AIM Framework.
...Community health workers · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Wellness...
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...
Deadline: Jun 15, 2026
Funding for organizations in North Carolina and South Carolina working to address access to care, maternal and infant health, mental health, oral health, population health, and workforce development.
...Community health workers · Health disparities · Health workforce · Healthcare quality · Hospitals · Maternal health and prenatal care...
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: 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...