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Funding Community Health Workers

Exploring Health

Underutilized and Undervalued: Community Health Workers Are the Way Forward in Global Health Crises Community health workers reduce healthcare inequities around the world. Rural areas often have underfunded healthcare infrastructure, lower socioeconomic status, and gaps in health education, leading to higher disease rates.

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Why mobile mental health care works for clients and social workers

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. Appleweis is a behavioral health specialist on one of New York City’s mobile treatment teams. The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene must approve clients to determine whether IMT is an appropriate level of care.

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Serving Communities on National Black HIV Awareness Day

Black Health Matters

Thats why ViiV Healthcare works hand-in-hand with the Black community to activate support networks and linkage to care services, as well as to deliver culturally relevant programming, he said in a statement to Black Health Matters. The kits will allow recipients to learn their status in mere minutes. Standifer, Ph.D.,