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Promoting the Health of the Community - Community Health Workers Describing Their Roles, Competencies, and Practice (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Promoting the Health of the Community - Community Health Workers Describing Their Roles, Competencies, and Practice (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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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 gap persists
in the literature regarding current CHW roles and skills, scope of
practice, CHW job settings, and national standards. This collection
of contributions addresses this gap by providing information, in a
single volume, about CHWs, the roles CHWs play as change agents in
their communities, integration of CHWs into healthcare teams, and
support and recognition of the CHW profession. The book supports
the CHW definition as defined by the American Public Health
Association (APHA), Community Health Worker Section (2013), which
states, "A community health worker is a frontline public health
worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually close
understanding of the community served." The scope of the text
follows the framework of the nationally recognized roles of CHWs
that came out of a national consensus-building project called "The
Community Health Worker (CHW) Core Consensus (C3) Project". Topics
explored among the chapters include: Cultural Mediation Among
Individuals, Communities, and Health and Social Service Systems
Care Coordination, Case Management, and System Navigation
Advocating for Individuals and Communities Building Individual and
Community Capacity Implementing Individual and Community
Assessments Participating in Evaluation and Research Uniting the
Workforce: Building Capacity for a National Association of
Community Health Workers Promoting the Health of the Community is a
must-have resource for CHWs, those interested in CHW scope of
practice and/or certification/credentialing, anyone interested in
becoming a CHW, policy-makers, CHW payer systems, CHW supervisors,
CHW employers, CHW instructors/trainers, CHW advocates/supporters,
and communities served by CHWs.
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