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What do we know about community health workers? A systematic review of existing reviews
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88
The Lives of Community Health Workers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

The Lives of Community Health Workers

Conclusion: Listening to Community Health Workers: Recommendations for Action and Research -- Recruit Strong CHWs and Provide Supportive Supervision -- Emphasize the Humanity of Patients, Quality of Life, and Empathic Care -- Build Solid Relationships across Social Dividing Lines -- Finance the Creation of Secure CHW Jobs -- Strengthen CHW Participation in Processes of Social Change -- Conduct Better Research and More of It -- United, Spider Webs Can Tie Up a Lion -- References -- Index.

Mobilizing African American Communities to Address Disparities in Cardiovascular Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

Mobilizing African American Communities to Address Disparities in Cardiovascular Health

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Training for Community Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Training for Community Health

Over a decade ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified a severe shortage of health care workers in the global health workforce (WHO 2006), with rural and low-income settings being disproportionately affected (Global Health Workforce Alliance, 2013). Simultaneously, emerging evidence suggested that the deployment of community health workers (CHWs) in these areas was helping to increase access to basic health care, particularly for underserved population groups (Lehman et al., 2007). More than a decade later, as highlighted in particular by the Ebola outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa and the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, CHWs have become an essential part of an increasingly stretched, yet interconnected, global health workforce"-- Provided by publisher.

Transformational Leadership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Transformational Leadership

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-09-01
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  • Publisher: Orbis Books

"In 2009, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)--an organization representing 300 orders of sisters in the United States--suddenly gained wide attention following a critical doctrinal assessment issued by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Many became interested in the way the LCWR and its members exercised leadership. One of their members described it as “transformational leadership”--a “way-of-being-in-in-the-world.” To better understand this way of leadership, LCWR regularly conducts interviews with some of the most engaging and passionate of contemporary thinkers. In this volume of interviews, eighteen theologians, psychologists, educators, an...

Foundations for Community Health Workers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 772

Foundations for Community Health Workers

A practical guide to becoming a community health worker Foundations for Community Health Workers provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to essential skills for professionals in community health roles. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a greater need than ever for compassionate community health workers trained in the core competencies and guiding principles that can empower individuals to lead healthy lives. With an emphasis on social justice, cultural humility, and client-centered practice, this book offers a solid background in professional skills and their application. Real-life case studies and quotes from community health workers illustrate the challenges and su...

Foundations for Health Promotion - E-Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Foundations for Health Promotion - E-Book

This hugely popular textbook provides a broad-based and user-friendly introduction to health promotion and its use in practice. Written by Professor Jane Wills, the book takes the reader through health promotion theory, strategy and methods, settings and implementation. It is clearly structured and accessibly written, with a discursive style that will appeal to readers of all levels and sufficient theoretical depth for undergraduates and postgraduates alike. Foundations for Health Promotion is suitable for students and practitioners of nursing, medicine, dentistry, allied health and social work, who will learn the essentials of health promotion as a discipline and reflect on its potential fo...

Manual of Community Nursing and Communicable Diseases
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 852

Manual of Community Nursing and Communicable Diseases

This edition, written as South Africa moves from expensive curative health care to a more people-focused primary health-care system, highlights transitional structures and bridges the gap between past and present. Part One focuses on the Government of National Unity and population development programmes, emphasising the role of community nurses in the primary health-care system. Subsequent sections cover factors playing an important role in community nursing, including housing, urbanisation and malnutrition. In accordance with the National Health-care Plan for South Africa, prominence is given to issues such as health education and maternal and child health care. The section on communicable diseases has been updated and takes into account changes in legislation and the latest statistical information. Primary health-care problems at community level are covered in depth. Students and practitioners will benefit from the wealth of information in this new edition.

Health Systems Policy, Finance, and Organization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Health Systems Policy, Finance, and Organization

This volume is unique in its systematic approach to these three pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties. Assembling such comparative materials is usually an onerous task because so many programs possess their own vocabularies, goals, and methods. This book will provide common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology. - Gives readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties - Provides common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology

Giving the Sense
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Giving the Sense

This collection of essays covers the four major periods of Israel's history and explores the theological, literary, historical, and archaeological dimensions of each era.