In the U.S., where many minority populations have deeply rooted distrust of the medical system due to historical and ongoing barriers to high-quality care, it can be helpful when trained members of ...

Recent research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found a community health worker model currently implemented at the health system can be adapted ...

Rabih Torbay is president and CEO of Project HOPE, in Washington, D.C. Reducing the barriers to care inside the US public health system is not a small job. The costs are prohibitive, the workers are ...

Increasingly, states are adopting Section 1115 waivers that allow Medicaid to address health-related social needs (HRSN) such as food insecurity, housing instability, and lack of transportation. Ten ...

Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...

In places like rural El Paso, Texas, community health workers (CHWs) help thousands of underserved individuals obtain the food, housing and medical services they need to survive. They speak the same ...

Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

The sun rises over the Sanpete County Jail and Sheriff’s Office outside Manti, Utah, on Dec. 19, 2023. (Lillian Mongeau Hughes for KFF Health News) MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent ...