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Identifying Value Indicators and Social Capital in Community Health Partnerships
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Hausman, Alice J.; Becker, Julie; Brawer, Rickie – Journal of Community Psychology, 2005
Increasingly, public health practice is turning to the application of community collaborative models to improve population health status. Despite the growth of these activities, however, evaluations of the national demonstrations have indicated that community health partnerships fail to achieve measurable results and struggle to maintain integrity…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Information Needs, Health Conditions, Public Health
Individual Empowerment: How Community Health Workers Operationalize Self-Determination, Self-Sufficiency, and Decision-Making Abilities of Low-Income Mothers
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Becker, Julie; Kovach, Andrea Crivelli; Gronseth, Dickie Lynn – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The purposes of this study were to operationalize individual empowerment within the context of the MOMobile Program, to explore the relationships formed between MOMobile Advocates and their clients, and to develop an appropriate survey instrument for assessing the impact of a Community Health Worker (CHW) intervention in a community-based social…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Health Promotion, Mothers, Focus Groups
The Impact of Community Health Workers on the Self-Determination, Self-Sufficiency, and Decision-Making Ability of Low-Income Women and Mothers of Young Children
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Kovach, Andrea Crivelli; Becker, Julie; Worley, Heidi – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
Pregnant women at high risk for adverse health outcomes can benefit from the services of community health workers. Maternity Care Coalition identifies at risk women and provides links to health care and social services through the MOMobile Program. The purpose of this study was to explore (a) the relationship formed between community health…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Mothers, Focus Groups, Health Conditions