Southwest Rural Health Research Center: Community health worker (CHW) certification and training - a national survey of regionally and state-based programs. Washington, DC: Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Services and Resources Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2005...
Community health workers (CHWs) have demonstrated effectiveness in delivering EBTs; however, the integration of CHWs in the U.S. mental health system remains limited. This Comment presents key recommendations for optimizing CHW integration into the mental health spectrum of care to better meet the n...
Trained and/or certified community health workers are a potential new and skilled healthcare workforce that could help improve healthcare access and utilization among underserved populations in the United States. 展开 关键词: Lay health workers Training Certification ...
22]. The CHW workforce stands at a crossroads: to advocate for certification or oppose it. One path leads to a certified workforce integrated into health care systems via formalized training and qualifications [23]. The other path retains the current emphasis on CHWs as part of the ...
Community health workers go through a much shorter training period than professional workers. They are trained to support one or multiple functions of health care — sometimes from a national certification authority. However, community health workers do not include formally trained nurses, medical assist...
A proposed certification scheme for community health workers would burden the workers and raise prices for everyone, according to a new report by Hawaii Office of the State Auditor.[1] The document, “Sunrise Analysis: Regulation of Community Health Workers,” issued i...
To analyze trends and various approaches to professional development in selected community health worker (CHW) training and certification programs in the U... BA Kash,ML May,TS Ming - 《Health Policy》 被引量: 88发表: 2007年 Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS Commu...
As a pharmacy technician, Merugu completed the CHW certification course by CEImpact to expand her role within Family Pharmacy and help advance health outcomes. “I was personally motivated to do this course because as health care providers have a responsibility to make sure our patients are taken...
beneficiary populations for their CHW interventions. Fifth, they will want to decide what services the CHWs can deliver. Additionally, states should establish training requirements for CHWs with whom they partner, leveraging existing training guidelines and potentially implementing new certificati...
Don't change who we are but give us a chance: confronting the potential of community health worker certification for workforce recognition and exclusion For community health workers (CHWs) and promotores de salud (CHWs who primarily serve Latinx communities and are grounded in a social, rather tha...