NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx was delivering her start-of-shift updates and mantras — “Covid is not finished with us … clean, clean, clean!” ...
Community health workers in Massachusetts help families navigate complex systems and advocate for better funding.
A pilot project that trains lay community members to screen for and address common psychiatric disorders, addiction issues, and suicide risk promises to bring timely, evidence-based health services to ...
Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...
The authors interrogate elements of routine medical practice in New York City to argue for reforms of hospital culture through relational trust-building capabilities of community health workers. Trust ...
At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...
Aotearoa New Zealand’s community nurses and home and community care assistants have played a crucial yet largely invisible role in the country’s response to the global pandemic. Across the country, ...
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As the Biden administration distributes hundreds of millions of Covid-19 tests, some public-health workers are moving to deliver the kits a final mile to some of the people most vulnerable to the ...
In this photo taken Wednesday, April 17, 2019, a community health worker prepares to vaccinate children against measles outside of Kuajok, South Sudan. As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil ...
SPRINGDALE -- If health is impacted in part by social circumstances, then Northwest Arkansas needs a health workforce that reflects that reality, regional health leaders said at the NWA Health Summit ...
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world and access to health care is limited for many people. Childhood vaccinations are a crucial component of preventative care, but vaccination rates ...