Racial and ethnic minorities have disproportionately higher cancer incidence and mortality than their White counterparts. In response to this inequity in cancer prevention and care, community-based lay health advisors (LHAs) may be suited to deliver effective, culturally relevant, quality cancer education, prevention/screening, and early detection services for underserved … [Read more...] about Designing a community-based lay health advisor training curriculum to address cancer health disparities.
Program Design
The role of community health workers (CHWs) in health promotion research: ethical challenges and practical solutions.
This article aims to describe the role of community health workers (CHWs) in health promotion research and address the challenges and ethical concerns associated with this research approach. Findings reveal a number of challenges that investigators and project managers encounter when working with CHWs on research projects involving the community. These include characteristics … [Read more...] about The role of community health workers (CHWs) in health promotion research: ethical challenges and practical solutions.
5-SPICE: the application of an original framework for community health worker program design, quality improvement and research agenda setting
Despite decades of experience with community health workers (CHWs) in a wide variety of global health projects, there is no established conceptual framework that structures how implementers and researchers can understand, study and improve their respective programs based on lessons learned by other CHW programs. Engaging a large group of implementers, researchers and the … [Read more...] about 5-SPICE: the application of an original framework for community health worker program design, quality improvement and research agenda setting
Cultural translation of interventions: diabetes care in American Samoa.
Translation of research advances into clinical practice for at-risk communities is important to eliminate disease disparities. Adult type 2 diabetes prevalence in the US territory of American Samoa is 21.5%, but little intervention research has been carried out there. We discuss our experience with cultural translation, drawing on an emerging implementation science, which aims … [Read more...] about Cultural translation of interventions: diabetes care in American Samoa.
Indicator Guide: Monitoring and Evaluating Integrated Community Case Management
This guide aims to encourage integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) programs to more effectively monitor and evaluate iCCM implementation and results across all of the iCCM benchmark components. Aimed at program managers, M&E officers, researchers, and organizations supporting/implementing iCCM, specific objectives of this guide are to: Compile iCCM indicators … [Read more...] about Indicator Guide: Monitoring and Evaluating Integrated Community Case Management