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Archana Bhavani Vasanth Kumar; Gia Grier Mcginnis; Laundette Jones; Erin R. Hager; Sequoia L. Wright; Cara Felter; Greg Carey; Bret Hassel; Arletha W. Livingston; Elizabeth A. Parker – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2024
University of Maryland, Baltimore CURE Connections (UMB CURE) connects West Baltimore high school students with STEM enrichment including hands-on research and community outreach. This study's purpose was to describe successes and challenges of implementing the virtual Community Health Worker curriculum during the summer programming for UMB CURE…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Summer Programs, STEM Education, Community Health Services
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Thomas, Karmella T.; Friedman, Sarah A.; Larson, Madalyn J.; Jorgensen, Troy C.; Sharma, Sneha; Smith, Amie; Lavi, Mordechai S. – Health Education Research, 2023
Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) Nevada applied the ECHO virtual hub-and-spoke telementoring model over nine 6-week cohorts (between November 2019 and November 2021) supporting community health workers (CHWs) who advise clients with diabetes or pre-diabetes. This study describes the program implementation, including…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Health Personnel, Diabetes, Health Education
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Toal-Sullivan, Darene; Lemonde, Manon; Gauthier, Alain P.; Dahrouge, Simone – Health Education Journal, 2021
Introduction: There is growing interest in the role and use of patient navigators within the health care system. Currently, qualifications and training expectations documented in the literature vary tremendously depending on context and patient population. This paper details the theoretical and pedagogical principles used to develop, implement and…
Descriptors: Lay People, Community Health Services, Health Personnel, Access to Health Care
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Duthie, Patricia; Hahn, Janet S.; Philippi, Evelyn; Sanchez, Celeste – American Journal of Education, 2012
For many years community health workers (CHW) have been important to the implementation of many of our health system's community health interventions. Through this experience, we have recognized some unique challenges in community health worker supervision and have highlighted what we have learned in order to help other organizations effectively…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Personnel, Supervision, Public Health
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Hood, N. E.; Ferketich, A. K.; Paskett, E. D.; Wewers, M. E. – Health Education Research, 2013
Lay health advisers (LHAs) are increasingly used to deliver tobacco dependence treatment, especially with low-socioeconomic status (SES) populations. More information is needed about treatment adherence to help interpret mixed evidence of LHA intervention effectiveness. This study examined adherence to behavioral counseling and nicotine patches in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Risk, Smoking, Intervention
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Charlier, N.; Glover, M.; Robertson, J. – Health Education Research, 2009
Community participation in program decision-making and implementation is an ideal that community and academic stakeholders aspire to in participatory research. This ideal, however, can be difficult to achieve. We describe lessons learned about community participation from a quasi-experimental trial aimed at reducing the uptake of smoking among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Intervention, Health Personnel
Ofosu-Amaah, Virginia – 1983
This booklet examines how the concept of the community health worker (a person chosen from the community and trained to function in the community in close relationship with the health care system) is being practiced in various developing countries. It also identifies the major problems and indicates how the contribution of the community health…
Descriptors: Adults, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Health Services
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Fontaine, Denis – Children in the Tropics, 1992
The theme of this serial issue is helping individuals involved in community health programs at the local level to devise and apply a protocol for the evaluation of a community health program. In the opening sections of the issue evaluation is defined, the difference between a direct quantifying measure and an indicator is clarified, obstacles to…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Tarimo, E. – 1991
This book is concerned with orienting health care workers in district health systems in developing countries to ways and means of overcoming problems, and describes briefly how district health systems can be improved. The book is organized around nine issues in nine chapters, each of which is an integral part of a district planning cycle. The…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Community Involvement, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Visiting Nurse Association of Omaha, NE. – 1980
This manual describes a classification system for classifying and recording client problems requiring nursing intervention and offers a plan for its implementation. Part 1 discusses the development of the method, described as an orderly arrangement of a nonexhaustive list of client problems diagnosed by nurses. Problems are divided into four…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Community Health Services, Computer Oriented Programs
Wallace, Susan W.; Myer, Donna Foster – 1983
This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching a course in health care organization and issues. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of health care organization and health issues in rural…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques