Winning Policy Change to Promote Community Health Workers: Lessons from Massachusetts in the Health Reform Era

Authors Mason, T. , Wilkinson, G.W. , Nannini, A. , Martin, C.M. , Fox, D.J.

Date 2011

Keywords Financing, Scope of Practice, US- based

An article from the American Journal of Public Health. Shares the experience in Massachusetts in which a collaboration between CHW leaders across the state and public health allies achieved health objectives through alliance building and organizing, legislative advocacy, and education in the context of opportunities afforded by health care reform.