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Community Workers Lend Human Connection To COVID-19 Response
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Community Workers Lend Human Connection To COVID-19 Response

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This article highlights how systems are investing in workers who come from the communities they serve to meet patient needs that extend well beyond clinic walls.

As people across the United States and the world grapple to survive and eventually emerge from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, a growing number of health planners and advocates propose hiring tens of thousands of additional community health workers to help.

An expanded community health workforce could respond to the enormous need for social, material and psychological support, helping people who have lost their incomes get food, strategize ways to pay their rent or mortgage, fill prescriptions, and figure out how to live more safely in crowded apartments. These needs are especially dire in low-income African American and Latino communities, which have been disproportionately afflicted by the virus.

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Health Affairs

Publication Date

07.07.2020

Topic Area

Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Social Needs
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Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

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“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.

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Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs

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