A Lay Health Advisor Program to Promote Community Capacity and Change Among Change Agents

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 434-439

  Plescia, Marcus ^a   Groblewski, Martha ^b   Chavis, Latonya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Charlotte REACH 2010 project ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; lay health advisors

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ROLE PLAYING; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COALITIONS; HEALTH EDUCATORS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; NORTH CAROLINA; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ROLE;

EID: 58849167433     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839906289670     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Becker, M.H., & Malman, L.A. (1975). Sociobehavioral determinants of compliance with health and medical care recommendations. Medical Care, 8(1), 10-17.
2. Brancati, F., Kao, L., Folsom, A.R., Szklo, M., & Watson, R.L. (2000). Incident Type 2 diabetes mellitus in African American and White adults: The athersclerosis risk in communities study. Journal of the American Medical Association, 283(17), 2253-2257.
3. Brown, R.E. (1991). Community action for health promotion: A strategy to empower individuals and communities. International Journal of Health Services, 21(3), 441-456.
4. Earp, J.A., Eng, E., O’Malley, M.S., Altpeter, M., Rauscher, G., Linda, M., et al. (2002). Increasing use of mammography among older, rural African American women: Results from a community trial. American Journal of Public Health, 92(4), 646-654.
5. Elder, J.P., Ayala, G.X., & Harris, S. (1999). Theories and intervention approaches to health-behavior change in primary care. American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 15, 275-280.
6. Eng, E., & Parker, E. (2002). Natural helper models to enhance a community’s health and competence. In R. J. DiClemente, R. A. Crosby, & M. C. Kegler (Eds.), Emerging theories in health promotion practice and research: Strategies for improving public health (pp. 101-126). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
7. Eng, E., Parker, E., & Harlan, C. (1997). Lay health advisor intervention strategies: A continuum from natural helping to paraprofessional helping. Health Education and Behavior, 24 (4), 413-417.
8. Fielding, J.E. (1996). Editorial: Great expectations, or do we ask too much from community-level interventions? American Journal of Public Health, 86(8), 1075.
9. Geronimus, A.T. (2000). To mitigate, resist or undo: Addressing structural influences on the health of urban populations. American Journal of Public Health, 90(6), 867-868.
10. Institute of Medicine. (2003). Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
11. Jackson, E.J., & Parks, C.R. (1997). Recruitment and training issues from selected lay health advisor programs among African Americans: A 20-year perspective. Health Education and Behavior, 24(4), 418-431.
12. Krieger, N. (1990). Racial and gender discrimination: Risk factors for high blood pressure? Social Science Medicine, 30(12), 1273-1281.
13. Krieger, J., Collier, C., Song, L.M., & Donald, C. (1999). Linking community-based blood pressure measurement to clinical care: A randomized controlled trial of outreach and tracking by community health workers. American Journal of Public Health, 89(6), 856-867.
14. Leviton, L.C., McGinnis, M., & Snell, E. (2000). Urban issues in health promotion. American Journal of Public Health, 90(6), 863-870.
15. Lewin, S.A., Dick, J., Pond, P., Zwarenstein, M., Aja, G., van Wyk, B., et al. (2003). Lay health workers in primary and community health care. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4 (Art. No. 004015.pub2. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004015.pub2).
16. Lillie-Blanton, M., & LaViest, T. (1996). Race/ethnicity: The social environment and health. Social Science Medicine, 43(1), 83-91.
17. Love, M.B., Gardner, K., & Legion, V. (1997). Community health workers: Who they are and what they do. Health Education and Behavior, 24(4), 510-522.
18. McNabb, W., Quinn, M., Kerver, J., Cook, S., & Karrison, T. (1997). The PATHWAYS church-based weight loss program for urban African American women at risk for diabetes. Diabetes Care, 20(10), 1518-1527.
19. Mechanic, D. (2005). Policy challenges in addressing racial disparities and improving population health. Health Affairs, 24(2), 335-338.
20. Minkler, M., & Cox, K. (1980). Creating critical consciousness in health: Applications of Freire’s philosophy and methods to the health care setting. International Journal of Health Services, 10(2), 311-368.
21. Mittlemark, M.B., Hunt, M.K., Heath, G.W., & Schmid, T.L. (1993, winter). Realistic outcomes: Lessons learned from community-based research and demonstration programs for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Journal of Public Health Policy, 437-456.
22. Parker, E.A., Schulz, A.J., Israel, B.A., & Hollis, R. (1998). Detroit’s East Side Village health worker partnership: Community-based lay health advisor intervention in an urban area. Health Education and Behavior, 25(1), 24-35.
23. Plescia, M., Koontz, S., & Laurent, S. (2001). Community assessment in a vertically integrated health care system. American Journal of Public Health, 91(5), 811-814.
24. Smith, D.B. (2005). Racial and ethnic health disparities and the unfinished civil rights agenda. Health Affairs, 24, 317-324.
25. Susser, M. (1994). The future of community-based cardiovascular disease intervention studies. American Journal of Public Health, 84(9), 1369-1378.
26. Williams, D.R., & Jackson, P.B. (2005). Social sources of racial disparities in health. Health Affairs, 24(2), 325-334.