COVID-19 Crisis Creates Opportunities for Community-Centered Population Health: Community Health Workers at the Center
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Dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus requires a coordinated transnational effort. We propose a 2-stage state-led effort that utilizes community health workers (CHWs). We spell out what is beginning to occur in states to control and suppress COVID-19. In the second stage, we suggest working with these CHWs as a key element in the next evolution of our health care system: community-centered population health.
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Similar proposals for CHW cadres are emerging in the United States.
“Similar proposals are emerging in the United States [29, 30].”
From Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All” (2021) · cites this paper as [30]
Calls are being made for the establishment of a national CHW cadre in the United Kingdom and for a community health corps in the United States to assist in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen the health system.
“Calls are being made for the establishment of a national CHW cadre in the United Kingdom [28] and for a community health corps in the United States [29, 30] to carry out similar functions—to assist in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic but also to strengthen the health system moving forward and to be able to be better prepared for future pandemics.”
From Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All” (2021) · cites this paper as [30]
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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All”
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- Authors
- Goldfield, N. I., Crittenden, R., Fox, D., McDonough, J., Nichols, L., & Lee Rosenthal, E.
- Affiliations
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Goldfield, Norbert I.
- Venue
- Journal of Ambulatory Care Management
- Published
- 2020-05-19
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 184-190
- ISSN
- 0148-9917 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3032591787
- Cited by
- 61
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 7
- FWCI
- 13.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Ambulatory Care Management (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Public Health Policies and Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Community Health and Development
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, community health workers, health system transformation, pandemic response
- MeSH terms
- Population Health, COVID-19, Allied Health Personnel, Communicable Disease Control, Community Health Workers, Community Health Centers, Health Services Accessibility, Humans, Massachusetts, Pneumonia, Viral, Population Surveillance, United States, Washington, Public Health Practice, Contact Tracing, Health Care Reform, Coronavirus Infections, Patient-Centered Care, Pandemics
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