Support for Community Health Workers to Increase Health Access and to Reduce Health Inequities
Author: American Public Health Association
Date Published: 2009
In 2001, the American Public Health Association (APHA) adopted Policy Statement 2001-15, "Recognition and Support for Community Health Workers' Contributions to Meeting Our Nation's Health Care Needs." In this resolution, the Community Health Worker Special Primary Interest Group (CHW SPIG) articulated many issues facing the field and proposed an array of policy and practice recommendations to address these issues. The 2001 resolution has helped move many local and state level policy and practice decisions forward; however, there has been no consistent and comprehensive progress in fulfilling all the recommendations. Therefore, the CHW SPIG requests that policy statement 2001-15 be archived and that APHA adopt this updated resolution in its place. This resolution, incorporating lessons learned during the ensuing 8 years, seeks to articulate current challenges to CHW workforce development and to strengthen many of the 2001 policy statement recommendations.
Date Published: 2009
In 2001, the American Public Health Association (APHA) adopted Policy Statement 2001-15, "Recognition and Support for Community Health Workers' Contributions to Meeting Our Nation's Health Care Needs." In this resolution, the Community Health Worker Special Primary Interest Group (CHW SPIG) articulated many issues facing the field and proposed an array of policy and practice recommendations to address these issues. The 2001 resolution has helped move many local and state level policy and practice decisions forward; however, there has been no consistent and comprehensive progress in fulfilling all the recommendations. Therefore, the CHW SPIG requests that policy statement 2001-15 be archived and that APHA adopt this updated resolution in its place. This resolution, incorporating lessons learned during the ensuing 8 years, seeks to articulate current challenges to CHW workforce development and to strengthen many of the 2001 policy statement recommendations.
