Community Health Workers Advancing Population Health Equity & Promoting Structural Competence
Originally presented on February 25, 2016
Overview
This webinar demonstrates how community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health professionals who have an unusually close understanding of the communities they serve through shared ethnicity, culture, language, and life experiences.
CHW approaches have been increasingly advocated as a mechanism to improve the health of minority and underserved populations, particularly in the current healthcare context. In this presentation, Dr. Islam and Kavathe will describe how the CHW model advances population health equity and structural competence by engaging in context-driven health promotion and prevention, addressing social determinants of health, and enhancing community capacity and leadership.
They will share their experience of implementing and evaluating CHW approaches across diverse Asian American communities in New York City and highlight a specific case study.
Target Audience
Public health professionals, environmental professionals, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, local health department staff and other medical and public health professionals.
Webinar
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Speakers
Nadia Islam, PhD
Deputy Director of Research, NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine.
Rucha Kavathe, PhD
Community Health Worker, United Sikhs
Learning Outcome and Objectives
As a result of this activity, the learner will be able to enhance their knowledge and competence on how the CHW model advances population health equity and structural competence by engaging in contact-driven health promotion and prevention, addressing social determinants of health, and enhancing community capacity and leadership.
After watching this webinar participants will be able to:
- Recognize the community health worker model
- Describe how community health workers approach advanced population health equity and structural competence
- Describe how community health workers are relevant for the Asian American population
- Explain how community health workers improve health and well-being in Asian American communities
Activity Materials
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