"Community Health Workers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Persons trained to assist professional health personnel in communicating with residents in the community concerning needs and availability of health services.
| Descriptor ID |
D003150
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.526.485.067.080 N02.360.067.080
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| Concept/Terms |
Community Health Workers- Community Health Workers
- Community Health Worker
- Health Worker, Community
- Health Workers, Community
- Worker, Community Health
- Workers, Community Health
- Community Health Aides
- Aide, Community Health
- Aides, Community Health
- Community Health Aide
- Health Aide, Community
- Health Aides, Community
Village Health Workers- Village Health Workers
- Health Worker, Village
- Health Workers, Village
- Worker, Village Health
- Workers, Village Health
- Village Health Worker
Barefoot Doctors- Barefoot Doctors
- Barefoot Doctor
- Doctor, Barefoot
- Doctors, Barefoot
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Community Health Workers" by people in Profiles.
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Trust Dynamics of Community Health Workers in Frontier Food Banks and Pantries: a Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 03; 38(Suppl 1):18-24.
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Glycemic Control and Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Patients with Diabetes Engaged with Community Health Workers in Rural Settings. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 03; 38(Suppl 1):45-47.
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Implementation of a multi-level community-clinical linkage intervention to improve glycemic control among south Asian patients with uncontrolled diabetes: study protocol of the DREAM initiative. BMC Endocr Disord. 2021 Nov 23; 21(1):233.
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Community Health Worker Asthma Interventions for Children: Results From a Clinically Integrated Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial (2016?2019). Am J Public Health. 2021 07; 111(7):1328-1337.
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Community health workers and care of older adults: How to learn what we need to know. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 06; 69(6):1466-1468.
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Chronic Disease in the Community (CDCom) Program: Hypertension and non-communicable disease care by village health workers in rural Uganda. PLoS One. 2021; 16(2):e0247464.
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Novel community health worker strategy for HIV service engagement in a hyperendemic community in Rakai, Uganda: A pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial. PLoS Med. 2021 01; 18(1):e1003475.
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Community Health Workers Reduce Rehospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits for Low-Socioeconomic Urban Patients With Heart Failure. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2020 09; 19(3):139-145.
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Engaging end-users in intervention research study design. J Asthma. 2018 05; 55(5):483-491.
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Design and Implementation of a Community Health Worker HIV Treatment and Prevention Intervention in an HIV Hot Spot Fishing Community in Rakai, Uganda. J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care. 2017 Sep/Oct; 16(5):499-505.