Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...

A first-in-kind program that trains trusted older adult community health workers to fit and deliver low-cost hearing technology to peers with hearing loss significantly improved communication function ...

More than half of volunteer community health care workers in 19 countries experience labor exploitation, including sub-minimum-wage pay and excess work hours, Mount Sinai researchers report in the ...

The sun rises over the Sanpete County Jail and Sheriff’s Office outside Manti, Utah, on Dec. 19, 2023. (Lillian Mongeau Hughes for KFF Health News) MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent ...

A groundbreaking initiative led by the Intermountain Health Community Health Team and Cheryl Swapp, a dedicated community health worker with the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Department, has significantly ...

A Santa Clara program designed to mitigate healthcare obstacles for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities is now backed with $1 million in federal funding, announced county supervisors on ...

If becoming a healthcare worker is a career ambition for you in 2026, Western Nevada College is making it easier than ever to ...

LAWERENCE COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - It can be hard to find someone to trust when it comes to your health. Ohio University has been offering a program for the past few years to help with this issue. They ...

Supporting Your Needs in Community Healthcare (SYNCH) is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration community health worker training program designed ...

Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

Nirmal Singh and Daljit Kaur outside the apartment building where they live in Fresno. The husband and wife both have vision problems but couldn’t afford to see an eye doctor. They also didn’t know ...