Policy Brief: Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Community Health Workers: A Call to Action
London, Katharine ; Damio, Grace ; Ferrazo, Meredith ; Perez-Escamalla, Rafael ; Wiggins, Noelle
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Southwestern AHEC
community health workers
community health administration
training
mentoring
care teams
Community Health
Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Health Economics
Health Law and Policy
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Abstract
This technical report was compiled by the Hispanic Health Council in partnership with Southwestern AHEC and a panel of Community Health Worker Policy Research Experts which included our Katharine London from the Center for Health Law and Economics. The report offers a number of policy recommendations for community health workers for communities that might benefit from community-based services.
The report offers recommendations on; payment of community health workers; community health worker caseloads; community health worker recruitment; community health worker training; reflective and trauma-informed mentoring and supportive supervision of community health workers; integration of community health workers into care teams; documenting the effect of community heal worker services on social determination of health. The Hispanic Health Council believes a service design that effectively supports community health workers would incorporate the seven areas of policy recommendation included in this report.