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What is the health promoters program?
The Promotores Program is an effort to improve health in the Hispanic population by training members of the community to be health promoters. These health promoters will share their health knowledge with others and will become a link between patients and health care providers.
The Promotores Program is an effort to improve health in the Hispanic population by training members of the community to be health promoters. These health promoters will share their health knowledge with others and will become a link between patients and health care providers.
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El programa de Promotores es un esfuerzo para mejorar la salud en la población Hispana quienes son miembros de la comunidad y tomarán una capacitación como Promotores de Salud.
Estos Promotores compartirán sus conocimientos de salud con otras personas y serán el lazo entre el paciente y los profesionales de salud.
Estos Promotores compartirán sus conocimientos de salud con otras personas y serán el lazo entre el paciente y los profesionales de salud.
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The Office of Minority Health supports the health promoters program or Community Health Workers(CHW):
Promotores de Salud/Community Health Workers (CHWs) are volunteer community members and paid frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community served. Promotores de Salud/Community Health Workers (CHWs) generally share the ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and life experiences of the community members they serve. These social attributes and trusting relationships enable CHWs to serve as a liaison, link, or intermediary between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to and enrollment in services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service. Promotores/CHWs can enhance provider-patient communication; preventive care; adherence to treatment, follow-up, and referral; disease self-management; and navigation of the healthcare system. Additionally Promotores/CHWs build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy among communities such as Hispanic/Latino communities.*
*Adapted from the American Public Health Association, 2009, Community Health Workers National Workforce Study (HRSA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
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Promotores de Salud/Community Health Workers (CHWs) are volunteer community members and paid frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community served. Promotores de Salud/Community Health Workers (CHWs) generally share the ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and life experiences of the community members they serve. These social attributes and trusting relationships enable CHWs to serve as a liaison, link, or intermediary between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to and enrollment in services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service. Promotores/CHWs can enhance provider-patient communication; preventive care; adherence to treatment, follow-up, and referral; disease self-management; and navigation of the healthcare system. Additionally Promotores/CHWs build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy among communities such as Hispanic/Latino communities.*
*Adapted from the American Public Health Association, 2009, Community Health Workers National Workforce Study (HRSA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
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For more information, contact Pilar Ford at [email protected]
