Open AccessThe Use of Community Health Workers in Community Health Centers
Author(s) -
Jeongyoung Park,
Marsha Regenstein,
Nicholas Chong,
Chinelo Onyilofor
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001607
Subject(s) - workforce , community health workers , community health , medicine , environmental health , family medicine , health services , nursing , population , public health , economic growth , economics
Until 2016, community health centers (CHCs) reported community health workers (CHWs) as part of their overall enabling services workforce, making analyses of CHW use over time infeasible in the annual Uniform Data System (UDS).