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Resources Search Results for: community health workers

188 Resources webpages matched your search. Here are matches 51 - 60:

51. Finding Innovation and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Rural Health Organizations Are Adapting Their Program Strategies
Date: May 2020

Summarizes a series of virtual peer learning sessions in response to COVID-19 for current Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program, Rural Health Network Development, Small Healthcare Provider Quality Improvement, and Delta States Rural Development Network program grantees. Provides an overview of common themes that emerged from the sessions. Discusses the challenges and innovations made to implement rural health and public programs across six areas: community health workers, data collection and evaluation, virtual trainings, peer support services and recovery supports, telehealth utilization, and schools.

...community health workers, data collection and evaluation, virtual trainings, peer support services and recovery supports...

52. Bridging The Home-Based Primary Care Gap In Rural Areas
Date: Feb 2024

Discusses challenges with offering home-based primary care (HBPC) in rural communities for older adults and people with disabilities, notably workforce shortages, insufficient infrastructure, and funding. Offers HBPC redesign suggestions with these challenges in mind, discussing community health workers, technology and telehealth, leveraging community resources and partnerships, training, scope of practice laws, payment models, and infrastructure investments.

...Community health workers · Funding · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Home...

53. COVID-19 Stakeholder Experiences in the Commonwealth of Kentucky - 2022
Date: Nov 2022

Results of surveys taken from October-December 2021 by 145 Kentucky school leaders, community health workers and their clients, rural community members, and healthcare providers. Includes statistics on satisfaction with telehealth, testing locations and vaccines, barriers faced during stay-at-home orders, and impact of COVID on medical care.

...community health workers and their clients, rural community members, and healthcare providers. Includes statistics on satisfaction...

54. Community-Clinical Linkages Within Health Care in Hawai'i
Date: Jun 2019

Special issue of the Hawaii Journal of Medicine and Public Health focusing on collaborations between the community and healthcare facilities to improve health in Hawaii. Covers community health workers, health systems-based programs, community health-center based programs, and provider-based programs. Addresses rural throughout.

...community health workers, health systems-based programs, community health-center based programs, and provider-based...

55. Critical Lessons from a Pragmatic Randomized Trial of Home-Based COVID-19 Testing in Rural Native American and Latino Communities
Date: Sep 2024

Examines the impact of utilizing community health workers (CHWs) to provide COVID-19 home testing in rural Latino and Native American communities. Includes data on completion of COVID-19 tests and provides qualitative feedback on accessibility, feasibility, and completion of COVID-19 home testing with CHW assistance.

...Tagged as Access · COVID-19 · Community health workers · Health screening · Statistics and data · Tribal communities...

56. Building Partnerships to Improve Health in the Rural South: CareSouth Carolina
Date: Feb 2020

Provides an overview of CareSouth Carolina, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), and its approaches to increase engagement with low-income patients in its service area. Describes the role of community health workers to address social determinants of health. Discusses partnerships with community organizations and the development of an independent practice association with other FQHCs in South Carolina. Includes CareSouth Carolina's performance scorecard and a summary of lessons learned.

...community health workers to address social determinants of health. Discusses partnerships with community organizations and the development...

57. Bridging a Care Gap: Policy Opportunities for Improving Access to Home-Based Primary Care
Date: Dec 2023

Recording of a panel discussion on home-based primary care for rural older adults and policies that could address challenges with offering and accessing home-based primary care. Discusses telehealth, broadband, community infrastructure, service models, community health workers, and more. Transcript available in the video description.

...Community health workers · Elderly population · Home and community-based services · Infrastructure · Policy · Primary care · Service...

58. Effectiveness of Trained Community Lay Workers on Glycemic Control, Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy Among Agricultural Workers with Diabetes in the Texas Panhandle
Date: May 2024

Describes a 2 phase study that created a diabetes coaching program and evaluated implementation among agricultural workers with diabetes in the Texas panhandle. Evaluated patient A1C levels and diabetes knowledge to determine the effectiveness of using community health workers to improve diabetes outcomes. Discusses the importance of culturally relevant content and addressing systemic barriers to healthcare access.

...Community health workers · Culture · Diabetes · Farmers and farmworkers · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

59. Physical Activity Change after a Promotora-Led Intervention in Low-Income Mexican American Women Residing in South Texas
Date: Jun 2019

Examines the physical activity preferences and changes after a community health worker (CHW) led intervention to decrease sedentary time in 620 Mexican American women from mostly rural colonias settlements in Hidalgo County, South Texas on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Community Health Activities Model Program for Seniors Physical Activity (CHAMPS) instrument was used to predict an increase in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

...community health worker (CHW) led intervention to decrease sedentary time in 620 Mexican American women...

60. Trends in the Health Workforce Supply in the Rural U.S.
Date: Oct 2024

Describes trends in the supply and distribution of clinicians in primary care, behavioral health, and obstetrical care, as well as dentists, surgeons, community health workers, and home health aides. Examines the availability of workforce data for professions important for rural communities, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using various health workforce data sources for rural health research. Features statistics with breakdowns by 5 levels of population density.

...Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health aides and assistants · Health workforce supply and demand · Home...