Community health background

A healthy community benefits every person in it.
And community health is one means of achieving a healthy community.
The field of public health aims to protect and improve health by addressing the structures and systems that define a place—and by supporting the people who live and work there in making healthy choices.
In 1965 the nation's first community health centers were launched as a small demonstration program as part of the President Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity.

How effective are community health workers?

The Department of Labor Statistics expects the CHW profession to grow 16% by 2026, 17 faster than the national average! This provides further evidence of the effectiveness of Community Health Workers across the nation! MHP Salud has over 30 years of experience in designing and implementing Community Health Worker programs across the county.

What does a community health assessment look beyond?

First, it looks beyond assessments of community health status to accountability for measurable health improvement.
Second, it looks beyond performance within an individual organization serving a specific segment of a community to the way in which the activities of many organizations contribute to health improvement throughout the community.

What are the characteristics of community health outreach?

A total of 45 articles were included in the analysis after having searched for text on database portals like PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL complete and EMBASE published between 2010 and 2018

The defining attributes of the concept of community health outreach were purposive, temporary, mobile and collaboration with community

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