Dulce Jimenez

Supporting CHWs with resources and training

Posted by ld583 on March 8, 2023

CEAL research team supports community health workers during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of community health workers (CHWs)—including Hispanic/Latinx promotores de salud and Indigenous community health representatives (CHRs)—in getting valuable and trusted scientific information to community members, preventing COVID-19 spread, and linking individuals to essential health and social services and resources.

In a community case study titled, “Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-Community Partnership… Read more

Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find

Posted by ld583 on July 12, 2022

Health Disparities

The differences in health status and disease burden (e.g., lower quality of life, financial costs, and death) exist among specific populations based on social or demographic factors such as race and income.

Social Determinants of Health

The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age (e.g., air quality, schools, parks, jobs, housing conditions, etc.).

Health Equity

Health equity is when every person has a fair and equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible and no one is… Read more

7-Part COVID-19 vaccines video series offers community health workers needed training

Posted by ld583 on October 18, 2021

Community health workers (CHWs)—also known as community health representatives (CHRs) and promotoras—know their community best. Unlike most other healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, CHWs have delivered essential support to their clients, often in their clients’ homes.

Since CHWs work in remote locations throughout the state, the Arizona Community Engagement Alliance (AzCEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities created a seven-part video training series on COVID-19 vaccines for their continuing… Read more

7-part COVID-19 vaccine video series provides needed community health worker training

Posted by ld583 on October 8, 2021

Community health workers (CHWs)—also known as community health representatives (CHRs) and promotoras—know their community best. Unlike most other healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, CHWs deliver essential support to their clients, often in their clients’ homes.

Called “CHWs Responding to COVID: Understanding the COVID-19 Vaccines,” the video series is a… Read more

Report highlights COVID-19 experiences of community health workers

Posted by ld583 on July 20, 2021

Community health workers (CHWs) — also referred to as community health representatives and promotoras de salud — are frontline public health workers who are trusted and welcomed into the homes of their communities.

A team from Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Arizona… Read more

Community health workers improve birthweight of newborns through the Arizona Health Start Program, researchers find

Posted by ld583 on June 22, 2021

Through a comprehensive study of the last 10 years, researchers from Northern Arizona University and University of Arizona found that pregnant women and mothers enrolled in Arizona’s Health Start Program, which employs community health workers (CHWs) to conduct home visits, have lower rates of low birthweight and preterm newborns than women who did… Read more

Dulce Jimenez

Supporting CHWs with resources and training

CEAL research team supports community health workers during COVID-19