Ultimately, community health workers have a unique opportunity to reach community members where they live, eat, work, and more. This leads to improved access to health care services, increased ...

Community health workers put in long hours to protect people in developing countries from diseases such as malaria, Covid-19 and H.I.V. But most are compensated minimally, or not paid at all.

Community health worker support for disadvantaged patients with multiple chronic diseases: a randomized clinical trial. Am J Public Health. 2017;107(10):1660–7.

The NYC Health + Hospitals Community Health Worker program, launched in 2021 as part of the NYC Public Health Corps, has embedded more than 250 community health workers in primary care teams ...

The program aims to break down language barriers and make health care more accessible to the Spanish-speaking community. Community health workers, according to Molina, help increase health ...

Since the program launched in September 2021, Essentia’s team of community health workers has used Resourceful to make about 19,000 referrals, connecting patients to services addressing food ...