State and Local Public Health Actions (1422) Year 4 Performance Measures Snapshot
Performance measures
States Implementing Community Health Worker Strategies
Technical assistance guide to support grantees that have chosen to use CHW strategies
Limits and opportunities to community health worker empowerment: A multi-country comparative study
Background: In LMICs, Community Health Workers (CHW) increasingly play health promotion related roles involving ‘Empowerment of communities’. To be able to empower the communities they serve, we argue, it is essential that CHWs themselves be, and feel, empowered. We present here a critique of how diverse national CHW programs affect CHW’s empowerment experience. Methods: We […]
Return on Investment From Employment of Community Health Workers
Abstract: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are gaining acceptance in the US health care system, but have been subject to challenges as to their “cost-effectiveness.” This situation is shifting, with a growing body of published evidence as to the effectiveness of CHWs, but much of the evidence of cost savings from employing CHWs is still unpublished. […]
ROI Toolkit: A Guide for Conducting a Return on Investment Analysis of your Community Health Worker Program
Toolkit to determine ROI of a CHW program
Using Job Analysis Techniques to Understand Training Needs for Promotores de Salud
Despite the value of community health worker programs, such as Promotores de Salud, for addressing health disparities in the Latino community, little consensus has been reached to formally define the unique roles and duties associated with the job, thereby creating unique job training challenges. Understanding the job tasks and worker attributes central to this work […]
Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology to account for value for money of public health interventions: a systematic review
Background: Increased scarcity of public resources has led to a concomitant drive to account for value-for-money of interventions. Traditionally, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analyses have been used to assess value-for-money of public health interventions. The social return on investment (SROI) methodology has capacity to measure broader socio-economic outcomes, analysing and computing views of multiple stakeholders […]
Benchmarks for Reducing Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Through Community Health Workers Integrated Into Primary Care
Background: Uncertainty about the financial costs and benefits of community health worker (CHW) programs remains a barrier to their adoption. Objectives: To determine how much CHWs would need to reduce emergency department (ED) visits and associated hospitalizations among their assigned patients to be cost-neutral from a payer’s perspective. Research Design: Using a microsimulation of patient […]
Issue Brief Community Health Worker Successes and Opportunities for States
Overview of the utilization of CHWs to improve community health outcomes
Building a Framework for Community Health Worker Skills Proficiency Assessment to Support Ongoing Professional Development
Abstract: Although community health workers (CHWs) continue to gain credibility and recognition in the health care and public health sectors, there is still a need to expand workforce identity and development efforts, including identifying best practices for assessing CHW skill proficiencies. During this qualitative study, we interviewed 32 CHWs, trainers, and supervisors to understand current […]