Community Health Workers Promoting Physical Activity: Targeting Multiple Levels of the Social Ecological Model

The effectiveness of community health workers (CHWs) as health educators and health promoters among Latino populations is widely recognized. The Affordable Care Act created important opportunities to increase the role of CHWs in preventive health. This article describes the implementation of CHW-led...

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Autores principales: Haughton, Jessica, Ayala, Guadalupe X., Burke, Kari Herzog, Elder, John P., Montañez, Jacqueline, Arredondo, Elva M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4565764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26280587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0000000000000108
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author Haughton, Jessica
Ayala, Guadalupe X.
Burke, Kari Herzog
Elder, John P.
Montañez, Jacqueline
Arredondo, Elva M.
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description The effectiveness of community health workers (CHWs) as health educators and health promoters among Latino populations is widely recognized. The Affordable Care Act created important opportunities to increase the role of CHWs in preventive health. This article describes the implementation of CHW-led, culturally specific, faith-based program to increase physical activity among churchgoing Latinas. This study augments previous research by describing the recruitment, selection, training, and evaluation of CHWs for a physical activity intervention targeting multiple levels of the Social Ecological Model.
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spelling pubmed-45657642016-10-01 Community Health Workers Promoting Physical Activity: Targeting Multiple Levels of the Social Ecological Model Haughton, Jessica Ayala, Guadalupe X. Burke, Kari Herzog Elder, John P. Montañez, Jacqueline Arredondo, Elva M. J Ambul Care Manage Original Articles The effectiveness of community health workers (CHWs) as health educators and health promoters among Latino populations is widely recognized. The Affordable Care Act created important opportunities to increase the role of CHWs in preventive health. This article describes the implementation of CHW-led, culturally specific, faith-based program to increase physical activity among churchgoing Latinas. This study augments previous research by describing the recruitment, selection, training, and evaluation of CHWs for a physical activity intervention targeting multiple levels of the Social Ecological Model. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015-10 2015-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4565764/ /pubmed/26280587 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0000000000000108 Text en © 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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