Integrating Community Health Workers Within Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Implementation

Islam, Nadia; Nadkarni, Smiti; Zahn, Deborah; Skillman, Megan; C. Kwon, Simona; Trinh‐Shevrin, Chau

doi:10.1097/phh.0000000000000084

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Integrating Community Health Workers Within Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Implementation

Published in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice • Nov 21, 2014

Authors:

Nadia Islam

Smiti Nadkarni

Deborah Zahn

Abstract

CONTEXT: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA) emphasis on community-based initiatives affords a unique opportunity to disseminate and scale up evidence-based community health worker (CHW) models that integrate CHWs within health care delivery teams and programs. Community health ...

Subject

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Outreach

Medicaid

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