What you need to know about COVID-19 and the role of community health workers in the Latino community

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• Personal Author:
  Smith, Denise Octavia ; Barbero, Colleen
• Corporate Authors:
  National Association of Community Health Workers (U.S.) ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
• Description:
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  COVID-19-role-community-health-workers.pdf
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Objectives
  
  ▪ Provide an overview of COVID-19 that CHWs can apply when guiding COVID 19 prevention in the communities that they serve
  
  ▪ Discuss the evidence-based COVID-19 prevention recommendations on how individuals can help themselves, their families and communities in preventing or slowing the spread of COVID-19
  
  ▪ Share messages, tools and other resources in Spanish that health promoters may use to inform at-risk groups, including older adults and people with underlying conditions
  
  ▪ Discuss the experiences of CHWs and the changing roles they face in the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  
• Subjects:
  Community Health Workers Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Hispanic Or Latino Pandemics SARS-CoV-2
• Document Type:
  Presentation
• Pages in Document:
  49 unnumbered slides
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4e1a5b6e415c1cc90b1b57b2503ff0e56538cbac66eec75885b8db6cdfb3d0fd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/135303/cdc_135303_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.93 MB ]