How Community Health Workers Can Be Part of the Solution
Around the world, community health workers have been shown to increase the use of preventive and primary care, decrease child and maternal mortality, and reduce emergency department use and hospitalizations.
As one example Ethiopia, despite limited resources, has managed to improve health outcomes by deploying community health workers who connect people in often marginalized communities to the health care system. Typically, these workers live in the areas they serve and speak the same language.
To learn more about Ethiopia’s successful community health worker program — and what the U.S. might learn from it — stay tuned for the next edition of International Insights on Monday, March 17.
This is such important data. Absolutely, we train maternal mental CHWs for free. The access to care and resources they provide in communities is essential. https://www.renewell.org/mmchw
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Physician and Global Health Specialist
3 周Community Health Workers are the key to reducing health inequalities. They make a huge impact across the world, with their unique abilities to engage with communities health services typically cannot. I am working on a project in Bristol, UK to get these roles funded with the backing of research.
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3 周Excellent Excellent Excellent Very insightful and informative.