Health Education Materials With Every Heartbeat Is Life A community health worker’s toolkit on heart disease prevention for African Americans. African American Resourc… Honoring the Gift of Heart Health A community health worker’s toolkit on heart disease prevention for American Indians/Alaska Native...
We will report on results from life-of-project operations research and a final evaluation conducted in early September 2014 (e.g., women delivering at health facilities/with skilled attendance doubled from baseline to endline; 75% of TBA-registered newborns received a postnatal care visit within...
Birth Outcomes and Maternal Care Before and After Propensity Score Matching Among Non-Hispanic Black Women View LargeDownload Podcast (14:17) Community Health Worker Home Visiting and Birth Outcomes Among Medicaid Recipients; Association Between COVID-19 and Early Childhood Development 1x 0:00 / 0:...
How to Become a Community Health Worker? Most community health workers have at least a high school diploma and sometimes a one-year certificate or two-year associate's degree in wellness or some related subject area. Once CHWs are hired, there is often some on-the-job training. But perhaps...
This randomized parallel group study reports that the provision of in-home asthma self-management support by community health workers to low-income adults
Publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine today, an international research collaboration led by Professor Tazeen H. Jafar from the Health Services and Systems Research Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, has found that a low-cost, mu
Haitian Community Health Workers (CHW) are trained to provide Maternal Child Health education and services in their communities. We present data on the evaluation of CHW impact on child health indicators in the rural district of Fond des Blancs, Haiti.Seraphin, Marie...
The issues of availability of critical manpower in the rural areas is proposed to be addressed through initiatives like: (i) introduction of a trained voluntary community health worker (ASHA) in every village of the 18 high-focus states; (ii) an additional ANM at each sub-centre; (iii) th...
The objectives of this review were to evaluate the effect of home visits by trained community health workers (CHWs) to successfully identify newborns and young infants (up to 59 days of age) with serious illness and improve care seeking from a health fac
Due to language barriers, cultural beliefs, or mistrust of the system, many people do not receive needed health care and preventive services. Across the United States, the Community Health Worker (CHW) is emerging as a vital link between underserved communities and health care providers. Chicago ...