Title
Community health workers: Social justice and policy advocates for community health and well-being
Date Issued
01 January 2008
Access level
open access
Resource Type
editorial
Author(s)
Martinez J.
Collins Center for Public Policy, Miami
Publisher(s)
American Public Health Association Inc.
Abstract
Community health workers are resources to their communities and to the advocacy and policy world on several levels. Community health workers can connect people to health care and collect information relevant to policy. They are natural researchers who, as a result of direct interaction with the populations they serve, can recount the realities of exclusion and propose remedies for it. As natural researchers, they contribute to best practices while informing public policy with the information they can share. In this light, community health workers may also be advocates for social justice.
Start page
11
End page
14
Volume
98
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud Ciencias del cuidado de la salud y servicios (administración de hospitales, financiamiento)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-38449112853
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Public Health
ISSN of the container
00900036
DOI of the container
10.2105/AJPH.2006.100842
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus