Community Health Navigators for Breast-and Cervical-Cancer Screening Among Cambodian and Laotian Women: Intervention Strategies and Relationship-Building Processes
Community Health Navigators for Breast-and Cervical-Cancer Screening Among Cambodian and Laotian Women: Intervention Strategies and Relationship-Building Processes
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DOI：
10.1177/1524839906290251
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Foo, Mary Anne
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作者：
Tu-Uyen Ngoc Nguyen;Tanjasiri, Sora Park;Foo, Mary Anne
近年来，越来越多的项目雇用健康导航员，帮助服务不足的个人克服获得定期和高质量医疗保健的障碍。本文介绍了柬埔寨和老挝社区参与REACH 2010项目的社区健康导航员的观点和经验，该项目旨在减少加州太平洋岛民和东南亚社区乳腺癌和宫颈癌的健康差异。这些社区健康导航员，谁拥有广泛的培训和知识的文化，历史和结构的需求和资源，他们的社区，有很好的装备，以建立与社区成员的信任关系，传统上被忽视的主流医疗系统。通过比较不同社区的社区健康导航员所采用的不同社会支持角色和干预策略，我们可以更好地了解这些有价值的卫生工作者的变革推动者如何有效地改善服务不足社区的健康获取和健康行为。
In recent years, there has been a growing number of programs employing health navigators to assist underserved individuals in overcoming barriers to obtaining regular and quality health care. This article describes the perspectives and experiences of community-based health navigators in the Cambodian and Laotian communities involved in a REACH 2010 project to reduce health disparities in breast and cervical cancer among Pacific Islander and Southeast Asian communities in California. These community health navigators, who have extensive training and knowledge about the cultural, historical, and structural needs and resources of their communities, are well equipped to build trusting relationships with community members traditionally ignored by the mainstream medical system. By comparing the different social support roles and intervention strategies employed by community health navigators in diverse communities, we can better understand how these valuable change agents of the health workforce are effective in improving health access and healthy behaviors for underserved communities.