JPHMP Direct June 1, 2022
Chelsey Kirkland

CHWs are quickly becoming recognized as critical to improving population health, which is where health departments are shifting their focus as they strive to achieve the strategies laid out in the Public Health 3.0 model.

Community health workers (CHWs) are an umbrella term that include community health representatives, promotoras, outreach educators, community health representatives, peer health promoters, and peer health educators, among other titles. Typically, a CHW is defined as someone who has a close relationship with the community they serve, enabling them to act as a link between health/social services and the community to help build individual and community capacity (the enabling of all community members, including the poorest and most disadvantaged, to develop knowledge, skills, and abilities and...

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