Growing your own: Community health workers and jobs to careers

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 234-246

  Farrar, Brandy ^a,b   Morgan, Jennifer Craft ^a   Chuang, Emmeline ^c   Konrad, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

community health workers; impact evaluation; workforce development program

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; CAREER CHOICE; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; NEW YORK; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 79959752714     PISSN: 01489917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JAC.0b013e31821c6408     Document Type: Article

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