Community Health Workers: Emerging Role and Intervention Outcomes (with accompanying CD-ROM)

A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who, as a member of the community, has the potential to deliver costeffective, high quality, and culturally competent health services within teambased care models. This book reviews select health services research findings on community health worker utilization that are relevant to U.S. policymakers and considers the key challenges to fully realizing the potential for CHWs to improve health care delivery.

This book is accomp...