The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides a policy framework to re-imagine a system of care that emphasizes health and wellness through new models of primary care and population health interventions. These new models offer the potential to deliver care services at a lower cost, to detect and treat disease earlier, to deploy data and technology to improve … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers in California: Sharpening Our Focus on Strategies to Expand Engagement
Program Design
Community Health Worker (CHW) Toolkit
CDC has compiled evidence-based research that supports the effectiveness of CHWs in the Community Health Worker Toolkit. The toolkit also includes information that state health departments can use to train and further build capacity for CHWs in their communities, as well as helpful resources that CHWs can use within their communities. … [Read more...] about Community Health Worker (CHW) Toolkit
An Action Guide on Community Health Workers (CHWs): Guidance for Organizations Working With CHWs
This guide provides information that may be helpful in various ways for organizations considering the employment of CHWs. It summarizes evidence-based best practices that organizations may wish to adopt or reinforce. It delineates possible quality indicators for high-quality CHW programs that may be used in discussions with payers. It provides background on key … [Read more...] about An Action Guide on Community Health Workers (CHWs): Guidance for Organizations Working With CHWs
CDC Evaluation Coffee Break: Evaluating CHW Programs
Hello, and welcome to today’s Coffee Break presented by the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We are really fortunate to have Alberta Mirambeau as today’s presenter. Alberta is from CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and is a … [Read more...] about CDC Evaluation Coffee Break: Evaluating CHW Programs
A Community Health Worker “logic model”: towards a theory of enhanced performance in low- and middle-income countries
The purpose of this paper is to promote early and continuous causal thinking as decision makers design, implement, scale up, and evaluate CHW and other programs that are intended to positively affect the public’s health. The methods section describes how the generic CHW logic model was constructed, drawing explicitly on research … [Read more...] about A Community Health Worker “logic model”: towards a theory of enhanced performance in low- and middle-income countries