How Community Health Workers can Address Tobacco Dependence of High-Risk patients: A Qualitative Analysis of the Unique Training Needs of Community Health Workers

• Main Authors: Clarissa Huard (Author), Enrique Villacis Alvarez (Author), Anna Veluz-Wilkins (Author), Andres Mauricio Garcia Sierra (Author), Marcia Tan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction Communities with low socioeconomic status have disproportionately high rates of tobacco use, and community health workers (CHWs) have an increasing role in delivering tobacco cessation interventions. However, existing tobacco cessation trainings are not appropriate for the CHW model of...