The potential contribution of community health workers to improving health outcomes in UK primary care
CHWs improving health outcomes
State Innovation Model Initiative: A State-Led Approach to Accelerating Health Care System Transformation
State innovation model – health care system transformation
Toward A Scalable, Patient-Centered Community Health Worker Model: Adapting the IMPaCT Intervention for Use in the Outpatient Setting.
Community health worker (CHW) programs are an increasingly popular strategy for patient-centered care. Many health care organizations are building CHW programs through trial and error, rather than implementing or adapting evidence-based interventions. This study used a qualitative design-mapping process to adapt an evidence-based CHW intervention, originally developed and tested in the hospital setting, for use […]
Inclusive, Local Hiring Building the Pipeline to a Healthy Community
Local hiring for a health community
A Global Review of Training of Community Health Workers
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are often the most important deliverers of health care services. This review brings together relevant information on CHWs and their training. These materials concern themselves with training techniques as they have been developed in various programs in various countries around the world. Because of the relative newness of the field the […]
Demonstrating Return on Investment for Community Health Worker Services Translating Science into Practice
Slides on ROI
Promotor(a)s, the organizations in which they work, and an emerging paradox: How organizational structure and scope impact promotor(a)s’ work
Abstract: Objective: To analyze how organizational structures and scope (geographic and programmatic) generate dissonance between the organization and its workers, creating a paradox with policy implications for access to health care in hard-to-reach populations. The workers are lay community health workers called promotor(a)s. The organizations are community based organizations in which the promotor(a)s work, either […]
Measuring Return on Investment of Outreach by Community Health Workers
Community health workers (CHWs) are effective in improving access to health care, promoting client knowledge and behaviour change, and contributing to improved health status of individuals. However, few outreach programs have evaluated the financial impact of CHWs on health care systems and policies. A longitudinal repeated measures design was used to assess the return on […]
Member of Care Delivery Team Model
CHW collaborative model
A Guide for Emerging Professions: Tips for stakeholders and advocates of emerging professions to professionalize and integrate with the health care system
Emerging professions guide