You will work looking for articles which can document if the training of CHWs can improve health in the specific area of your interest. I will post a rubric – outline below but for now see these instructions.
Instructions
The Community Training course which is taught online introduces you to health education topics and competencies. One way this skill can be used is to train community health workers to perform a specific task within a community or a number of tasks. For this Independent Study I would like you to think of a setting or a health issue of interest to you and do a literature review finding cases where community health workers have been trained to address these issues in their communities and see if you can find some evidence of positive health outcomes as a result of training these CHWs.
As you search you may find other ‘names’ for CHWs like: health coach, community health advisor, family advocate, health educator, liaison, promoter, outreach worker, peer counselor, patient navigator, health interpreter, public health aide, etc.. Use the PHA guidelines (you can find them on the SPHTM Website) to format your paper and Word count etc. It might also help to look at the IS Guidelines that will be in Canvas to give you ideas. In the U.S. you may find these “CHWs” are persons who help patients manage specific diseases such as diabetes.
- Descriptive title of independent study. This title will appear on the student transcript. The title cannot be more than 30 characters including spacesNumber of credits
- Description of independent study – 120 words
- Three course objectives
- Integrate the fundamentals of project management into occupational and/or environmental health and safety programs.
- Implement financial management within an occupational health and safety programs.
- Analyze safety and health investment strategies and cost/benefits of health and safety.
- Apply systems thinking to occupational/ environmental health programs and strategic management.
- Evaluate the program performance for ongoing improvement.
- Course product – must be a high quality written document. Determine the type of document, length, and other expectations for the product
- Grading rubric
I am attaching the rubric and I will use it to grade your paper. Use each section of the rubric as an “Outline – Title” which will tell me what you are doing in each section of your paper. In other words if you paper is just 15-20 paragraphs one after the other I find it difficult to determine your goal with each paragraph. If you follow this out line and title each section I just go through and check to see if you have addressed the purpose of each section and it is easier for you to get full credit on your paper. Let me know if you have any questions about this. (No need to have a bullet point for ‘written communication’ that is just a place for me to comment on the clarity of your paper.
Attached is the rubric and an example case study that you can use.
Requirements: 3-5 pages double spaced
Answer preview
This independent study predominantly seeks to evaluate the impact of CHWs training on reducing emergency department visits and readmissions. Specifically, the independent study will focus on why CHW training for this issue is needed, the various training approaches used, and finally, whether the training resulted in positive health outcomes for patients. One of the health challenges affecting the American health care system revolves around increasing emergency visits and readmission. Numerous communities across the country, especially in rural areas, have record-high emergency department visits and readmissions after patients have been discharged from health care facilities. A literature review approach was adopted for this independent study. This process led to the identification of two resources that were included in the study. The analysis of the two resources used in the study should prompt the realization that CHWs can play a pivotal role in reducing ED visits and readmission rates, especially when they are sufficiently trained to undertake post-discharge care.
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