Healthcare Innovation November 11, 2020
Mark Hagland

A team of population health experts has authored an article in which they call for the organized development of teams of community health workers, in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic

A team of population health experts is arguing that the use of community health workers (CHWs) will become indispensable as health system leaders and community leaders nationwide attempt to master the situation around the COVID-19 pandemic.

Writing on Nov. 5 in the Perspectives section of The New England Journal of Medicine, three population health experts share their thoughts in the article “Community Health Workers and Covid-19—Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Times of Crisis and Beyond.” The article’s authors—Patricia J. Peretz, M.P.H., Nadia Islam, Ph.D., and Luz Adriana Matiz,...

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