The Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) is a unique program employing local, indigenous peoples as primary care nonphysician providers in extremely remote frontier, tribal Alaskan communities. With attrition rates up to 20%, recommendations for improving retention are necessary to maintain access to health services for Alaska Natives in these communities. The purpose of … [Read more...] about Factors influencing the retention and attrition of community health aides/practitioners in Alaska.
Recruitment and Retention
The Healthy Connections project: a community-based participatory research project involving women at risk for diabetes and hypertension.
The Healthy Connections (HC) project was a community health worker (CHW) intervention that built upon existing social networks to encourage African American and Latina women to obtain screening for type 2 diabetes and hypertension. This community-based participatory research (CBPR) project involved identifying and training CHWs, known as HC Advocates (HCAs). The HCAs … [Read more...] about The Healthy Connections project: a community-based participatory research project involving women at risk for diabetes and hypertension.
Effective utilization and evaluation of indigenous health care workers.
The use of indigenous health care workers (IHCWs), who were key elements in community health care programs in the United States in the 1960s, has gone in and out of fashion in subsequent years. The author and his colleagues recently established a service program at Wayne State University's Institute of Maternal and Child Health that employs IHCWs. Characterizations of IHCWs in … [Read more...] about Effective utilization and evaluation of indigenous health care workers.
Community health worker integration into the health care team accomplishes the triple aim in a patient-centered medical home: a bronx tale
Community health workers are ideally suited to the care coordination niche within the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) team, but there are few case studies detailing how to accomplish this integration. This qualitative study documents how community health workers (CHWs) were integrated into a PCMH in South Bronx, New York. Results show that integration was linked to clear … [Read more...] about Community health worker integration into the health care team accomplishes the triple aim in a patient-centered medical home: a bronx tale
Community Health Workers in the Midwest: Understanding and developing the workforce
Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a unique and valuable role in their communities, particularly in reducing health disparities by reaching underserved populations. To support efforts to build CHWs into a sustainable component of the health care system, the American Cancer Society - Midwest Division sought to increase understanding of and document the work … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers in the Midwest: Understanding and developing the workforce