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- State Policies for Expanding Medicaid Coverage of Community Health Worker (CHW) Services
- CVS Health Launches Community Equity Alliance to Improve Health Outcomes in Underserved Communities
- Community workers needed in task of regional health equity, leaders say at NWA Health Summit
- Latino teens are deputized as health educators to sway the unvaccinated
- Research from School of Medicine in the Area of Public Health Described (Community health worker team integration in Medicaid managed care: Insights from a national study): Health and Medicine – Public Health
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Kenya’s Community Health Workers Shortage Undermines Universal Health Care
In underserved populations, the contribution of community health workers (CHWs) is vital to the healthcare system. Preparing the health workforce to work towards the attainment of a country’s health objectives represents one of the most important challenges for its health system. In Kenya, the government established its community health worker (CHW) program in 2006 as a key innovation of the Community Health Strategy. Within this strategy, CHWs function at the…
CHWs and Wellness: Your Care Matters Too!
If you’re a CHW, at some point in life, you may have learned how to care for others’ needs before your own. Our lived experiences make us experts on being in service of other people. But, sometimes we become so focused on caring for our community that we neglect our own needs. For a long time, anytime someone used the phrase “take care of yourself,” I had no idea what…
Proudly a Community Health Assistant supervising CHVs
Historically, and across professions, supervision has been an endeavor of task oversight and punitive, critical corrective actions. Supportive supervision is considered the best practice for community health worker (CHW) in international settings and includes collaborative reviews, observations, monitoring, constructive feedback, participation, problem solving, training, and education. Such a comprehensive supervisory strategy in Kenya is of particular importance to the success of Community Health Volunteer (CHV) programs and facilitates the empowerment…
Community Health Work is a Calling: CHWs from Kiambu and San Bernardino Connect
I woke up at 5:30 am on a mid-September Sunday morning, anxiously awaiting my 6am talk with Mark Mwenda, my fellow CHW Ambassador colleague. I sat up in bed, reached in thin dark air towards my nightstand, and blindly searched for my journal. I was excited about getting to know Mark. And, I wanted to write everything down so I would not forget any details. Also, I was excited to…
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Evaluating the implementation of home delivery of medication by community health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: a convergent mixed methods study
In this mixed methods study, researchers sought to evaluate a medication home delivery service implemented by community health workers during the COVID-19…
Examining the Intersection between Gender, Community Health Workers, and Vector Control Policies: A Text Mining Literature Review
In this systematic review, authors investigated how gender intersects with healthcare, especially when considering community health work and arboviral vector-borne disease. Researchers…
Role of accredited social health activists in treatment of persons with severe mental illness in the community
In this article, authors advocate for the inclusion of Accredited Social Health Activists, ASHAs, in mental health care. Authors argue that ASHAs…