Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Reviewed: Oct 2023
Describes the Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) and the network of Community Health Aides/Practitioners from more than 170 rural Alaska villages. Provides information and resources for training, and completes assessments and referrals for community members in need of healthcare.
...community members in need of healthcare. Type Website Organization Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Tagged as American Indian or Alaska Native · Community health workers...
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.
...Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 27(4A), 91–115 Date 11/2016 Type Document Tagged as Care coordination · Community health workers...
Date: 2019
Describes a study examining the effectiveness of a home-based education program for Zuni adults with kidney disease in rural New Mexico. Compares patients' knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their kidney disease; quality of life; and clinical risk factors to patients who received care at local Zuni Indian Health Services clinics. Explores the role of community health representatives as part of the clinical care team.
...American Indian or Alaska Native · Community health workers · Health conditions · Service delivery models · New Mexico...
Deadline: Jun 1, 2022
Funding for clinical effectiveness research that compares multicomponent strategies to improve early detection of and timely care for complications up to six weeks postpartum among women in underserved populations, including women living in rural areas.
...community health workers, or doulas Telehealth Care coordination Strategies to overcome bias and racism Eligibility...
Date: Jan 2007
Describes the Colonias Project, a health literacy outreach project using promotoras in low-income Hispanic communities along the Texas-Mexico border.
...Tagged as Community health workers · Health literacy · Hispanic or Latino · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...
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 · Hispanic or Latino · 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 and cultural competency · Health literacy · Health workforce education and training · Hispanic...
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.
...Health, 17(3), 713-721 Date 06/2015 Type Document Tagged as Access · Cancer · Community health workers...
Date: Oct 2013
Highlights a study on changes in health knowledge relating to pesticides of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon. Details the results of participants' pesticide knowledge from pre/post-intervention questionnaires and biological testing.
...health and safety · Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health literacy · Hispanic or Latino · Migrants...
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.
...Community health workers · Families · Hispanic or Latino · Oral health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...