A technical brief offering guidelines for integrating community health workers into complex care teams, highlighting the importance of an intentional hiring process, clearly defined opportunities for career advancement, and meaningful supports and supervision.
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Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Literacy among Korean American Women: A Community Health Worker-Led Intervention
An article from the American Journal of Public Health. Evaluates a community health worker intervention intended to increase mammogram and Papanicolaou screening among Korean American women. The trial involved health education as well as CHW health literacy training and telephone follow-up.
Reducing Risk of Postpartum Depression in a Low-Income Community through a Community Health Worker Intervention
An article from the Maternal and Child Health Journal. Analyzes the effectiveness of a community health worker intervention intended to reduce postpartum depresseion among minority, low-income women. Explores the role of the relationship between clients and CHWs in outcomes.
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention in a Population of Patients with Multiple Chronic Diseases: Study Design and Protocol
A study protocol to assess the impact of CHW intervention among patients with multiple chronic diseases. The authors seek to better understand how upstream interventions, such as community health worker support, impact patients’ health goals across multiple illnesses.
A community health worker model to address childhood asthma : perspectives of program participants
A report analyzing the impact of a community health worker-led program intended to address the impact of the home environment on childhood asthma. The program contributed to a reduction in use of emergency services and night-time awakenings, as well as successful advocacy for improved housing conditions. The evaluation includes feedback from primary caregivers who participated in the intervention, as well as CHWs and residents.
Defining the Role of the Community Health Worker within a Federal Healthy Start Care Coordination Team
Describes a process through which community health workers, nurses, and social workers collaborated to define the role of community health workers and defined evidence-based interventions to improve maternal and child health.
Engaging Outreach Workers in the Development of a Farmworker Health Research Agenda
An article from Environmental Research documenting the results of a survey administered to farmworker health outreach workers. While health outreach workers have not been involved in setting the research agenda for farmworker health, the authors seek to involve them in this process and to create a bridge between researchers and farmworkers.
Advancing Understanding of the Sustainability of Lay Health Advisor (LHA) Programs for African-American Women in Community Settings
An article from Translational Behavioral Medicine. Proposes strategies to sustain a lay health advisor model for promoting cancer screening among African American women based on the experiences of current lay health advisors.
Community Health Workers Promote Civic Engagement and Organizational Capacity to Impact Policy
An article from the Journal of Community Health assessing the relationship between community health worker advocacy and positive community change. The paper uses data from the 2014 National Community Health Worker Advocacy Survey to identify the roles of CHWs in advocacy and measure the impact of such interventions.
Accuracy of Visual Inspection Performed by Community Health Workers in Cervical Cancer Screening
A review from the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics assessing the efficacy of cervical cancer screening by community health workers using visual inspection. Examines the accuracy of CHW screening to evaluate whether such an intervention would be an effective means of increasing access to cancer screening services in low-resource areas.