'I Am Who I Serve'—Community Health Workers In Family Planning Programs


 
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English

Author:

Gold RB

Series/Journal Title:

13

Volume:

3

Issue:

Guttmacher Polic

Description:

For decades, family planning programs and other public health programs have utilized community health workers (CHWs) as a way to reach and serve disadvantaged populations, often immigrants leery of government sponsored programs.Despite decades of experience, however, and a substantial body of evidence documenting their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, these efforts continue to be hampered by the lack of a dedicated funding stream—a problem now being addressed by individual states and potentially by a little-noticed provision in the federal health care reform legislation that could provide at least some funding nationwide.[from introduction]

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