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Health Department Community Health Workers: The Greatest Potential for Improving Population Health

Building Pathways to Careers in Public Health
This entry is part 11 of 65 in the series Wide World of Public Health Systems

CHWs are quickly becoming recognized as critical to improving population health, which is where health departments are shifting their focus as they strive to achieve the strategies laid out in the Public Health 3.0 model. Community health workers (CHWs) are an umbrella term that include community health representatives, promotoras, outreach educators, community health representatives, peer health promoters, and peer health

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