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Community Health Workers in Rhode Island: A Study of a Growing Public Health Workforce
Brady Dunklee1, Deborah Garneau2
1Boston University School of Public Health (2018), conducted this study for the Rhode Island Department of Health in 2017.
Abstract:
Community Health Workers are gaining recognition as a valuable, newly emergent public health workforce. This article describes a qualitative study that generated a snapshot of Community Health Worker employment in Rhode Island, gathered collective wisdom and stakeholders' perspectives about how to pay for a community health workforce, and highlighted promising opportunities to grow and sustain the field. This article summarizes the study's findings, and discusses its implications. The full report is available at: http://www.health.ri.gov/ publications/reports/CommunityHealthWorkersInRhode Island.pdf
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