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Mujer Y Corazón: Community Health Workers and Their Organizations in Colonias on the US-Mexico Border An Exploratory Study

Author: May, Marlynn L.


This reports focuses on colonias along the border between the US and Mexico, and more specifally, on unique organizations and people who help meet the basic health and infrastructure needs of residents of these colonias. Using qualitative and ethnographic methods, the research focused on addressing four specific objectives: 1. To describe variation in structures and processing among Community Health Worker (C-HW) organiztions; 2. To describe the work of C-HWs and explain why they do this work; 3. To identify factors that shape the work of C-HW's and 4. To identify the policy implications of the study finding. To accomplish these goals, the study examined twelve C-HW organizations and their workers: sic organiztions in Texas and six in New Mexico.

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Number of Pages: 52