North Carolina’s Community Health Worker Initiative

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Submitted: July 30, 2022
Published: Aug 27, 2022
DOI: 10.17352/2455-5479.000184

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Jeanne Milliken Bonds*
Whole Community Health Initiative, Kenan-Flagler Business School and UNC Public Policy UNC Chapel Hill, USA
James H Johnson
Whole Community Health Initiative, Kenan-Flagler Business School and UNC Public Policy UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Elizabeth Ordonez
Whole Community Health Initiative, Kenan-Flagler Business School and UNC Public Policy UNC Chapel Hill, USA

Abstract

Community Health Workers support frontline public health professionals during times of public health pandemics by providing communities with trusted messengers that are a support system and liaison to medical and social services. North Carolina deployed Community Health Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic using funding under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with success. We offer recommendations for a more robust program going forward using what was learned during the pandemic.

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Bonds, J. M., Johnson, J. H., & Ordonez, E. (2022). North Carolina’s Community Health Worker Initiative. Archives of Community Medicine and Public Health, 8(3), 110–112. https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5479.000184
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