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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

St. John, Julie Ann, editor.

Mayfield-Johnson, Susan (Professor), editor.

Hernández-Gordon, Wandy D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9783030563752

3030563758

OCLC:

1238005136

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.