North Carolina’s Community Health Worker Initiative
- 27 August 2022
- journal article
- Published by Peertechz Publications Private Limited in Archives of Community Medicine and Public Health
- Vol. 8 (3), 110-112
- https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5479.000184
Abstract
Community Health Workers support frontline public health professionals during times of public health pandemics by providing communities with trusted messengers that are a support system and liaison to medical and social services. North Carolina deployed Community Health Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic using funding under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with success. We offer recommendations for a more robust program going forward using what was learned during the pandemic.Keywords
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