Trained female community health volunteers provided low-cost urine pregnancy tests in their communities, leading to counseling and appropriate referrals for antenatal care, family planning, or comprehensive abortion care. … [Read more...] about Early pregnancy detection by female community health volunteers in Nepal facilitated referral for appropriate reproductive health services
Research
Cancer Screening for Underserved Women: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study
BACCIS targeted ∼25,000 multiethnic, underserved women in eight neighborhoods and the public health clinics that served them. An outreach intervention using lay health worker peers and clinic provider inreach intervention to improve breast and cervical cancer screening were evaluated in a quasi-experimental, controlled trial with pretest and posttest household surveys. Analyses … [Read more...] about Cancer Screening for Underserved Women: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study
Participants’ assessments of the effects of a community health worker intervention on their diabetes self-management and interactions with healthcare providers.
The specific ways in which community health worker (CHW) programs affect participants' healthcare behaviors and interactions with their healthcare providers, as well as mechanisms by which CHW programs influence these outcomes, are poorly understood. A qualitative descriptive study of participants in a successful CHW diabetes self-management program was designed to examine: (1) … [Read more...] about Participants’ assessments of the effects of a community health worker intervention on their diabetes self-management and interactions with healthcare providers.
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.