The Role of Lay Workers in Community Health Education: Experiences of the North Karelia Project
The role of natural community leaders in serving as lay health workers in a comprehensive community health programme has been explored. In rural Finland, nearly 300 persons were trained to detect cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, high-cholesterol diet, high blood pressure) in their communities,...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/140349488000800101 2023-05-15T17:00:12+02:00 The Role of Lay Workers in Community Health Education: Experiences of the North Karelia Project Neittaanmäki, Liisa Koskela, Kaj Puska, Pekka McAlister, Alfred L. 1980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/140349488000800101 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/140349488000800101 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine volume 8, issue 1, page 1-7 ISSN 0300-8037 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal-article 1980 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/140349488000800101 2022-08-12T11:32:26Z The role of natural community leaders in serving as lay health workers in a comprehensive community health programme has been explored. In rural Finland, nearly 300 persons were trained to detect cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, high-cholesterol diet, high blood pressure) in their communities, and to advise community members of the desirability of lowering these risk factors. Initial data from studies of the lay health workers and their intervention work support the concept that carefully select community health workers who are to varying degrees representative of their local populations, can well act as intermediaries in preventive health care strategies. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 8 1 1 7 |
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The role of natural community leaders in serving as lay health workers in a comprehensive community health programme has been explored. In rural Finland, nearly 300 persons were trained to detect cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, high-cholesterol diet, high blood pressure) in their communities, and to advise community members of the desirability of lowering these risk factors. Initial data from studies of the lay health workers and their intervention work support the concept that carefully select community health workers who are to varying degrees representative of their local populations, can well act as intermediaries in preventive health care strategies. |
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The Role of Lay Workers in Community Health Education: Experiences of the North Karelia Project |
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