BACKGROUND: With an expanding Hispanic/Latino community in the United States,
practitioners and researchers working to promote health and prevent disease have relied on …

BACKGROUND: Research evaluating community health worker (CHW) programs inherently
involves these natural community leaders in the research process, and often represents …

Objective To examine what different types of employers value in hiring community health
workers (CHW s) and determine what new competencies CHW s might need to meet …

Community health worker (CHW) interventions have been found to be a promising strategy
for improving diabetes outcomes, especially among low-income and racial and ethnic …

Objective: This article discusses different strategies for integrating CHW models within
PPACA implementation through facilitated enrollment strategies, patient-centered medical …

Objective To compare the marginal benefit of in-home asthma self-management support
provided by community health workers (CHWs) with standard asthma education from clinic …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) affords opportunities to sustain the
role of community health workers (CHWs). Among myriad strategies encouraged by PPACA …

Mental health conditions are common in the United States, yet the mental health workforce is
limited in its capacity to reach disadvantaged populations. While a number of recent reviews …

Background Community health workers (CHWs) have the potential to reduce child mortality
by improving access to care, especially in remote areas. Uganda has one of the highest …

Objectives. We evaluated efforts in New York to build a consensus between community
health workers (CHWs) and employers on CHWs' scope of practice, training standards, and …