 Community Health Workers
"Community Health Workers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Persons trained to assist professional health personnel in communicating with residents in the community concerning needs and availability of health services.
| Descriptor ID |
D003150
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.526.485.067.080 N02.360.067.080
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| Concept/Terms |
Community Health Workers- Community Health Workers
- Community Health Worker
- Health Worker, Community
- Health Workers, Community
- Worker, Community Health
- Workers, Community Health
- Community Health Aides
- Aide, Community Health
- Aides, Community Health
- Community Health Aide
- Health Aide, Community
- Health Aides, Community
Village Health Workers- Village Health Workers
- Health Worker, Village
- Health Workers, Village
- Worker, Village Health
- Workers, Village Health
- Village Health Worker
Barefoot Doctors- Barefoot Doctors
- Barefoot Doctor
- Doctor, Barefoot
- Doctors, Barefoot
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Community Health Workers" by people in Profiles.
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Wells KJ, Dwyer AJ, Calhoun E, Valverde PA. Community health workers and non-clinical patient navigators: A critical COVID-19 pandemic workforce. Prev Med. 2021 05; 146:106464.
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Williams LB, Shelton BJ, Gomez ML, Al-Mrayat YD, Studts JL. Using Implementation Science to Disseminate a Lung Cancer Screening Education Intervention Through Community Health Workers. J Community Health. 2021 02; 46(1):165-173.
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Paniagua-Avila A, Fort MP, Glasgow RE, Gulayin P, Hernández-Galdamez D, Mansilla K, Palacios E, Peralta AL, Roche D, Rubinstein A, He J, Ramirez-Zea M, Irazola V. Evaluating a multicomponent program to improve hypertension control in Guatemala: study protocol for an effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial. Trials. 2020 Jun 09; 21(1):509.
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Kelly T, Hoppe JA, Zuckerman M, Khoshnoud A, Sholl B, Heard K. A novel social work approach to emergency department buprenorphine induction and warm hand-off to community providers. Am J Emerg Med. 2020 06; 38(6):1286-1290.
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Khan A, Sebok-Syer SS, Linstadt H, Storm M, Modan N, Bosco MK, Prashanth G, Mahadevan SV. An Electronic-Based Curriculum to Train Acute Care Providers in Rural Haiti and India. J Grad Med Educ. 2019 Aug; 11(4 Suppl):152-157.
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Andersen LM, Boles RE, Kaar JL, Gance-Cleveland B, Gauthier KI, Cason-Wilkerson R, Federspiel D, Valenzuela M, Thompson DA. Use of the Delphi Technique to Obtain Community Input on Leading Contributors to Early Childhood Obesity in Latino Communities. Hisp Health Care Int. 2018 09; 16(3):113-119.
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Schultz C, Larrea N, Celada M, Heinrichs G. A Qualitative Assessment of Community Attitudes and Barriers to Family Planning Use in the Trifinio Region of Southwest Guatemala. Matern Child Health J. 2018 04; 22(4):461-466.
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Kwan BM, Rockwood A, Bandle B, Fernald D, Hamer MK, Capp R. Community Health Workers: Addressing Client Objectives Among Frequent Emergency Department Users. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2018 Mar/Apr; 24(2):146-154.
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White A, Thomas DS, Ezeanochie N, Bull S. Health Worker mHealth Utilization: A Systematic Review. Comput Inform Nurs. 2016 May; 34(5):206-13.
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Kimbrough-Melton RJ, Melton GB. "Someone will notice, and someone will care": How to build Strong Communities for Children. Child Abuse Negl. 2015 Mar; 41:67-78.
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