{"title":"Development of Texas's First Chinese American Community Health Worker Certification for Family Health History-Based Cancer Prevention.","authors":"Yu-Lyu Yeh, Zihan Zhang, Denise Martinez, Lei-Shih Chen","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307895","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To address leading health organizations' calls for public health professionals to adopt family health history (FHH) into their practice, we developed the first community health worker Texas state-certification program focusing on FHH-based cancer prevention for Chinese Americans, for whom cancer is the leading cause of death. The 160-hour program trained 46 Chinese American CHWs to provide FHH-based cancer prevention services for 1129 Chinese Americans. Our program contributes to the establishment of a public health workforce with FHH-based competence and reduces cancer disparities. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(2):138-141. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307895).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 2","pages":"138-141"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715592/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American journal of public health","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307895","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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To address leading health organizations' calls for public health professionals to adopt family health history (FHH) into their practice, we developed the first community health worker Texas state-certification program focusing on FHH-based cancer prevention for Chinese Americans, for whom cancer is the leading cause of death. The 160-hour program trained 46 Chinese American CHWs to provide FHH-based cancer prevention services for 1129 Chinese Americans. Our program contributes to the establishment of a public health workforce with FHH-based competence and reduces cancer disparities. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(2):138-141. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307895).
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