Promoting the health of the community : community health workers describing their roles, competencies, and practice

Promoting the health of the community : community health workers describing their roles, competencies, and practice / Julie Ann St. John, Susan L. Mayfield-Johnson, Wandy D. Hernández-Gordon, editors.

Community health workers (CHWs) are an increasingly important member of the healthcare and public health professions who help build primary care capacity. Yet, in spite of the exponential growth of CHW interventions, CHW training programs, and CHW certification and credentialing by state agencies, a...

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Other Authors: St. John, Julie Ann (Editor), Mayfield-Johnson, Susan (Professor) (Editor), Hernández-Gordon, Wandy D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Subjects:
Community health services.
Community health aides.
Public health.
public health.
Community health services
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why community health workers (CHWs)?
  • THe community health worker cor consensus (C3) project story: confirming core roles and skills of community health workers
  • Roles, skills, and qualities of community health workers
  • Describing results from the "Promoting the health of the community" national needs assessment
  • Cultural mediation among individuals, communities, and health and social service systems
  • Providing culturally appropriate health education and information
  • Care coordination, case management, and system navigation
  • Providing coaching and social support
  • Advocating for individuals and communities
  • Building individual and community capacity
  • Providing direct services
  • Implementing individual and community assessments
  • Conducting outreach
  • Participating in evaluation and research
  • Uniting the workforce: building capacity for a national association of community health workers
  • Where do we go from here? a closing reflection.

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