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    Policy Brief: Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Community Health Workers: A Call to Action

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    London, Katharine
    Damio, Grace
    Ferrazo, Meredith
    Perez-Escamalla, Rafael
    Wiggins, Noelle
    UMass Chan Affiliations
    Commonwealth Medicine, Center for Health Law and Economics
    Document Type
    Report
    Publication Date
    2018-01-30
    Keywords
    Hispanic Health Council
    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
    Health Policy
    Health Services Administration
    Health Services Research
    Medical Education
    Public Health Education and Promotion
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    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.
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