{"title":"Actualizing the Full Potential of Public Health Community Health Workers.","authors":"Andrea McKinnon","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Community health worker career paths that include policy, system change, program and process development, and advocacy will increase job satisfaction and sustainability. Community health workers employed at an organizational level can be liaisons between public health and community organizations to improve relationships and develop system-level culturally and linguistically appropriate services, information, resources, and policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"35 3S","pages":"123-131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Community health worker career paths that include policy, system change, program and process development, and advocacy will increase job satisfaction and sustainability. Community health workers employed at an organizational level can be liaisons between public health and community organizations to improve relationships and develop system-level culturally and linguistically appropriate services, information, resources, and policies.
期刊介绍:
The journal has as its goal the dissemination of information on the health of, and health care for, low income and other medically underserved communities to health care practitioners, policy makers, and community leaders who are in a position to effect meaningful change. Issues dealt with include access to, quality of, and cost of health care.