North Carolina's Community Health Worker Initiative
<p>Community Health Workers support frontline public health professionals during times of public health pandemics by providing communities with trusted messengers that are a support system and liaison to medical and social services. North Carolina deployed Community Health Workers during the C...
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Archives of Community Medicine and Public Health - Peertechz Publications,
2022-08-27.
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Summary: | <p>Community Health Workers support frontline public health professionals during times of public health pandemics by providing communities with trusted messengers that are a support system and liaison to medical and social services. North Carolina deployed Community Health Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic using funding under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with success. We offer recommendations for a more robust program going forward using what was learned during the pandemic. </p> |
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DOI: | 10.17352/2455-5479.000184 |