Community health worker empowerment through collaborative models with community midwifery

Community Health Worker Programmes

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Community-based Participatory Development of a Community Health Worker Mental Health Outreach Role to Extend Collaborative Care

Ashley Wennerstrom, MPH; Steven D. Vannoy, PhD, MPH; Charles E. Allen, III, MSPH; Diana Meyers, RN, BSN; Elizabeth O’Toole, MSPH; Kenneth B. Wells, MD, MPH; Benjamin F. Springgate, MD, MPH Objectives: The REACH NOLA Mental Health Infrastructure and Training Project (MHIT) aimed to reduce disparities in access to and quality of services for depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in ...

Outcomes of community health worker interventions.

OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review of the evidence on characteristics of community health workers (CHWs) and CHW interventions, outcomes of such interventions, costs and cost-effectiveness of CHW interventions, and characteristics of CHW training. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, Cochrane Collaboration resources, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature for stu...

Developing community health worker diabetes training.

We designed, implemented and evaluated a 48-hour training program for community health workers (CHWs) deployed to diabetes care teams in community health centers (CHCs). The curriculum included core knowledge/skills with diabetes content to assist CHWs in developing patient self-management goals. Our qualitative evaluation included pre/post-knowledge outcomes and encounter data from the field. ...