CHWs Get Credit: A 10-Year History of the First College-Credit Certificate for Community Health Workers in the United States

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 418-428

  Love, Mary Beth ^a   Legion, Vicki ^b   Shim, Janet K ^b   Tsai, Cindy ^b  

^a Department of Health Education and Community Health Works ^*  (United States)

^b New York City Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

community colleges; community health workers; evaluation of training; health promotion; health workers; outreach; performance based training; popular education; training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

CALIFORNIA; CERTIFICATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 7444270850     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839903260142     Document Type: Article

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