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Through Education and Advocacy, this First-Generation Nurse Graduate is Helping to Improve Health Outcomes in Her Immigrant Community
Carolina Benitez is passionate about educating her patients and empowering them to manage their own health and make informed health choices.
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Employing a Holistic Approach to Support a Diverse and Fulfilled Health Workforce
Tuition assistance with wraparound support like childcare grants enable nursing students to advance their goals, and is helping to close healthcare gaps in New Jersey’s minority communities.
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Community Health Is for Everyone: National CHW Awareness Week
Community health workers have a profound impact on their communities and health systems as a whole, yet the work done by CHWs often goes unseen compared to other health workers.
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Community Health Centers Hold the Key to Advancing Health Equity
Community health centers and community health workers are helping tens of millions of Americans overcome barriers like income and insurance coverage to get the quality care they need in their communities. 
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Our Race to Health Equity: Community Health Solutions Video Series
The videos in this series evoke the vital role community health centers and community health workers play in helping to overcome systemic barriers and providing access to quality care for everyone by meeting patients where they are.
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Helping to Put the Vision of Healthy China 2030 Into Action
Capacity building initiatives focusing on community-based primary healthcare services and mental health support are helping China achieve the goals of universal health coverage and social equity.
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Extending Healthy Longevity in Japan
As a rapidly aging society, Japan is facing a supply and demand imbalance that can lead to deterioration of health services. A community-based approach that aims to extend healthy longevity among seniors would help to prolong their need to seek specialized care in overstretched hospital settings.
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Voices From the Front Line
Through Leadership and Example, this Kenyan Nurse is Helping Young People in His Community Make Better Life Choices
Quality healthcare and tireless community outreach, including mental health support groups, have made Stephen Omondi Shikuku and his colleagues successful in getting hard-to-reach populations to seek treatment for chronic conditions such as HIV, TB and drug addiction.
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WHO HealthWorkerConnect: The Digital Platform Strengthening Global Health Systems
The platform originally built for COVID-19 response now provides health workers worldwide the targeted resources and support they need to boost knowledge-building and resilience.
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Voices From the Front Line
In a Volatile Healthcare Environment, Empowerment is Key for this Kenyan Nurse and her Patients
For Jane Njeri Mugo, healthcare workers equipped with the right expertise, knowledge and skills not only strengthen health systems, but in turn empower patients to manage and own their health.
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