This is the concluding paper of our 11-paper supplement, “Community health workers at the dawn of a new era”. We relied on our collective experience, an extensive body of literature about community health workers (CHWs), and the other papers in this su
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a community health worker (CHW)-led decision-coaching program to facilitate SDM for prostate cancer screening among Black men in the primary care setting, with the ultimate aim of improving/optimizing decision quality. Methods We proposed ...
Community granting programs were designed to address broad or narrow scopes of community health priorities. Approximately two-thirds of programs (n = 24, 69%) focused on a specific public health topic area, including physical activity and nutrition [44,45,51,59,68,74,77], cancer prevention...
The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Blanchard et al. BMC Women's Health (2018) 18:66 Page 2 of 12 (Continued from previous page) Conclusion: The...
Poor behavior change communication on maternal nutrition and health throughout pregnancy is thought to be to blame for Ethiopia’s high rate of low birthweight babies, and this has implications for neonatal morbidity and mortality. The effect of behavior change communication on birth weight in the ...
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Caregiver burden has been associated with dietary choices [32] and insufficient rest and time to exercise [33]. Although the dose–response relationship of spousal concordance in chronic illnesses has not been investigated much, the results of two previous studies are in line with those of the ...
Fostering learning in primary and community health promotion and engagement [3, 4] with greater emphasis on positive health behaviours including exercise and physical activity (PA), as highlighted by the Exercise is Medicine initiative, is critical to address the current lifestyle and chronic dis- ...
Healthy lifestyles are crucial for preventing chronic diseases. Nonetheless, approximately 90% of Chinese community residents regularly engage in at least one unhealthy lifestyle. Mobile smart devices-based health interventions (mHealth) that incorporate