Resources Search Results for: community health workers
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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...
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...
Date: Dec 2018
Study of two community health worker (CHW) chronic disease prevention programs serving Mexico-born residents of the U.S-Mexico border region: one in a rural Arizona community and one in an urban community in Sonora, Mexico. Discusses challenges related to healthy diet, physical activity, and social support as risk factors for obesity and diabetes. Analyzes data from self-report assessments to evaluate behavioral and subjective health improvements over 6 months of the intervention programs.
...community health worker (CHW) chronic disease prevention programs serving Mexico-born residents of the U.S-Mexico...
Date: Jun 2017
Assesses the Kentucky Care Coordination for Community Transitions (KC3T) program of employing a specially trained community health worker (CHW) as a navigator to aid in the transition of individuals who have had a stroke from acute in-patient care to their rural community. The goal of the study was to determine the community navigation and resources required by people who have had a stroke in order to transition back to rural communities with few resources and to facilitate positive health outcomes.
...community health worker (CHW) as a navigator to aid in the transition of individuals who have...
Date: Jun 2019
Results of a study conducted in Appalachian Kentucky, exploring a program in which community health workers helped promote healthy eating, physical activity, stress reduction, and other activities to manage risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
...Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers · Mental health conditions · Physical activity · Tobacco use · Kentucky...
Date: Sep 2022
Explores the role community health workers, or promotoras de salud, played in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a father-focused health program for rural communities on the U.S.-Mexico border. Highlights some of the health and wellness issues for children and adults in the poor and under-resourced colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border.
...Community health workers · Families · Immigrants · Poverty · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Texas...
Date: May 2021
Describes how PeaceHealth is promoting COVID-19 vaccines among farmworkers in rural Washington. Discusses the role of community health workers and digital media in educating people about the importance of vaccination.
...Community health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health disparities · Vaccination · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Mar 2023
Webinar highlighting a rural library's efforts to increase digital health literacy and healthcare access in rural Texas. Discusses telehealth, broadband access inequities and digital literacy, transportation issues, aging in place, community health workers working in libraries, emergency response, circulating medical equipment, and summer meals for students. Transcript available in the video description.
...Community health workers · Emergency preparedness and response · Food security and nutrition · Health literacy · Home and community...
Date: Sep 2022
Examines barriers and strategies affecting COVID-19 vaccination and testing uptake in rural Latino communities in southwest Florida. Uses data from interviews conducted between March-April 2021 with 25 key stakeholders including rural Latino community members, local leaders, and community health workers.
...Tagged as Access · Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers · Infectious diseases · Vaccination · Florida...
Date: 2016
Describes how the communities within the Columbia Gorge region took a collaborative approach by developing a 15-member community advisory committee that included Medicaid recipients and Latino residents. Top concerns addressed by this committee were food, housing, jobs and transportation, along with improved access to dental and mental health, and better coordination among social services and healthcare providers. Projects included expanding the use and training of community health workers (CHWs) to assist Latino residents when navigating programs outside of healthcare and the development of a fruit and vegetable prescription program to support increased intake of healthy foods. A collective impact specialist was hired to help solve community problems through collaborative efforts, and to find grants and other sources of funding to support their projects. Columbia Gorge Region is a recipient of the 2016 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Prize.
...community health workers (CHWs) to assist Latino residents when navigating programs outside of healthcare and the development...