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Community health workers in action : the efforts of "Promotores de Salud" in bringing health care to marginalized communities / Melvin Delgado.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delgado, Melvin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social--Health aspects--United States.
- Marginality, Social.
- Public health--Social aspects--United States.
- Public health.
- Social medicine--United States.
- Social medicine.
- Public health--Social aspects.
- Marginality, Social--Health aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- What Constitutes a Profession? p. 12
- Peer Leaders/Community Health Workers p. 14
- Historical Origins of Community Health Workers p. 18
- Health Inequity p. 20
- An Expanding Universe for Community Health Care Worker Coverage p. 23
- Evolution of Innovative Interventions p. 25
- Values and Principles Guiding Community Health Workers p. 28
- A Focus on Community Health Workers and Four Special Population Groups p. 32
- Book Goals p. 33
- 2 Culture and Health p. 35
- Nature and Extent of Relationship Between Health and Culture p. 36
- Intersectionality and Health p. 42
- Acculturation Status and Stress p. 44
- 3 Health Inequity p. 47
- Definition and Overview p. 48
- 4 Challenges and Barriers to Urban Health Care Delivery p. 52
- Key Demographic Profiles and Trends p. 53
- Organizational Access Barriers p. 54
- Geographical/Physical p. 56
- Psychological p. 56
- Cultural/Language p. 57
- Operational/Financial p. 57
- 2 Theoretical Foundation
- 5 Values, Guiding Principles, Conceptual Foundation, and Framework p. 61
- Values and Principles Guiding Community Health Worker Interventions p. 61
- Values p. 62
- Conceptual Frameworks p. 67
- Community Capacity Enhancement p. 68
- Life Course Perspective p. 70
- 6 Community Health Workers/Promotores de Salud: Definition, Parameters, and Challenges p. 73
- Promotores de Salud: Who Are They and Why Are They So Important? p. 74
- Classification of Community Health Workers p. 83
- Effectiveness of Community Health Workers p. 86
- Certification of Community Health Workers: Rewards and Challenges p. 87
- Effective of Community Health Workers p. 87
- The Glue That Makes Them Effective p. 90
- Trust p. 91
- Intimate Knowledge of Community p. 95
- Language, Cultural Competencies, and Humility p. 96
- Empathy p. 97
- Commitment p. 98
- Home Visiting p. 98
- Appeal p. 101
- Logistical and Safety Challenges p. 103
- Community Institutions as Collaborators p. 104
- Definitional Challenges p. 105
- Role Definition and Diffusion p. 105
- Community-Organizational Conflictual Demands p. 106
- 7 Recruiting, Training, and Supporting Promotores (Paid and Volunteer) p. 110
- Key Research Questions p. 113
- Recruiting and Screening p. 113
- Training and Supervision p. 114
- Organizational Support p. 117
- Advancement p. 118
- 3 Reflections From The Field
- 8 Special Population Case Illustrations p. 121
- Special Population Groups p. 122
- The Formerly Incarcerated as Community Health Workers p. 123
- The Formerly Unauthorized as Community Health Workers p. 132
- The Formerly Homeless (Unhoused) as Community Health Workers p. 137
- Persons in Recovery as Community Health Workers p. 143
- 9 Recommendations for Practice and Research p. 152
- New Approaches and Models p. 153
- Demand for Community Health Workers Will Only Increase p. 154
- Evolving Roles p. 154
- Research by, for, and on Community Health Workers p. 156
- 10 Practice Challenges and CHWs as Researchers p. 160
- Challenges and the Field of Community Health Work p. 161
- Rewards and Challenges in Community Health Worker-Initiated and -Involved Research p. 168
- Promising Research Methods and Approaches p. 170
- Community-Based Participatory Research p. 170
- Photovoice p. 172
- Ethnographic Research p. 172
- Community-Led Mapping p. 173
- Other Less Known or Emerging Research Methods p. 174
- Ethical Conflicts and Considerations p. 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 24, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 9780190691035
- 0190691034
- 9780190691042
- 0190691042
- Publisher Number:
- 99981846412
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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