Using popular education for community empowerment: perspectives of Community Health Workers in the<i>Poder es Salud</i>/Power for Health program

Wiggins, Noelle; Johnson, Denise; Ávila, Maria Marlene Marques; Farquhar, Stephanie A.; Michael, Yvonne L.; Ríos, Teresa Etelvina; López, Alicia

doi:10.1080/09581590802375855

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“…increased confidence to care for own health), which is consistent with one other small study that has examined LHA benefits (e.g. Noelle Wiggins et al (2009)). Additionally, many of the skills and competencies reported are potentially transferable outside of the program, including those related to gaining work experience.…”

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confidence: 86%

Advancing Understanding of the Characteristics and Capacity of African American Women Who Serve as Lay Health Advisors in Community-Based Settings

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Lay Health Advisor (LHA) programs hold tremendous promise for reducing health disparities and addressing social determinants of health in medically underserved communities, including African American populations. Very little is understood about the capacity of LHAs in these roles and the broader contributions they make to their communities. This paper seeks to address this gap by describing the characteristics and capacity of a sample of 76 female African American LHAs from a nationally disseminated evidence-based LHA program for breast and cervical cancer screening (The National Witness Project), as well as potential differences between cancer survivors and non-survivors who serve as LHAs. A conceptual model for understanding LHA capacity and contributions in underserved communities at the individual, social, and organizational levels is presented. We describe LHA experiences and characteristics (e.g. experiences of mistrust and discrimination; racial pride; sociodemographics), capacity at the individual-level (e.g., psychological and physical health, health behaviors), capacity at the social-level (e.g., social networks, social support), and capacity at the organizational-level (e.g., role-related competencies, self-efficacy, leadership, role benefits/challenges). Data was obtained through interview-administered telephone surveys between 2010 and 2012. Findings highlight the critical capacity that LHAs bring to their communities and the importance of supporting LHAs to sustain these programs and to address racial/ethnic health disparities.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Advancing Understanding of the Characteristics and Capacity of African American Women Who Serve as Lay Health Advisors in Community-Based Settings

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“…A strong sense of belonging to the community would stimulate individual HPVs to strengthen this role, and then in turn, to motivate the HPV to a more vigorous activity in community outreach. In previous research on CHWs, members gained a sense of community through their active experiences as a CHW (Wiggins et al, 2009). That is, a sense of belonging to the community might be fostered through the experience of HPV activities, such as by interaction with local residents.…”

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Exploring Strategies to Encourage Community Health Outreach by Health Promotion Volunteers in Japan

Murayama

Taguchi²,

Murashima

2011

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

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Japan's health promotion volunteers (HPVs) are individuals who act as a natural helping resource in the community. This study explored the factors associated with vigorous community health outreach by HPVs who promote healthy lifestyles. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in December 2009 that included 822 HPVs in 2 areas. Multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that higher motivation for initial involvement as an HPV, stronger neighborhood networks, and a stronger sense of belonging to the community where they worked were related to vigorous outreach. These findings reveal challenges that HPVs encounter, and also provide recommendations for training HPVs to encourage effective community health outreach.

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“…These practices were found to transform the women's perceptions of themselves and awareness of their social realities, leading them to both think and act differently. Popular education strategies, designed explicitly to raise consciousness, have been used successfully to promote change by reducing health disparities within African American and Latino communities in the United States (Wiggins et al, 2009). Participatory learning procedures have also been shown to affect local community development in Latin America (Ceballos, 2006).…”

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Beyond (the ABCs): education, community, and feminism in Afghanistan

Brodsky

Portnoy

Scheibler

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Journal Community Psychology

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This article examines the meaning, operation, and outcomes of education and related formation of feminist identity development within an Afghan women's humanitarian and political organization. Qualitative data, including 110 interviews, archival review, and participant observations, were collected using a feminist, community, strengths-based approach and were re-analyzed here with a focus on educational processes. Findings revealed multiple educational mechanisms, both similar to and different from many Western assumptions. Within these educational mechanisms, themes of critical consciousness and feminist identity also arose. Outcomes were mapped against Downing and Roush's (1985) feminist identity development model. Similarities, differences, limitations, and lessons in the application of a Western model to an Afghan context are discussed. Findings have implications for understanding indigenous educational methods, the development of critical consciousness and ''feminist'' identity in global perspective, and cross-cultural, feminist, community psychology research and application. C 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. It was not until after September 11, 2001, when the U.S. government's hunt for Osama bin Laden led them to the Taliban and Afghanistan, that many people in the West first learned of Afghan women's struggles for the most basic of human rights. The plight of Afghan women under the Taliban (1995Taliban ( -2001 was indeed desperate: They were denied the right to go to school or work, access health care, and other basic services and restricted in what they wore, who they talked to, and even the circumstances under which they could leave their homes. Yet it is important to note that the modern suffering of Afghan women, and indeed all Afghans, did not begin or end with Taliban rule, but rather can be seen in decades of political strife, social unrest, war, and religious and sociocultural oppression.1 The result is a country that today ranks near the bottom of all countries in a wide range of rankings, including clean water, life expectancy, poverty, gender development, and literacy rates (Brodsky, 2011; United Nations Development Programme, 2010). The political strife and related oppression of Afghan women has impeded their advancement in many realms, arguably the most devastating and wide-reaching of which has been in the area of girl's and women's education.Despite these grave circumstances, Afghan women are not mere victims, but have actively worked, both individually and collectively, to resist oppression and promote opportunities and freedoms for girls, women, and all Afghans. Indeed, the history of activism for Afghan women's advancement, focused particularly on their education, dates well before the current post-Taliban influx of Western governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGO). In the early 1920s, for example, King Amanullah and Queen Soraya worked to extend women's marital rights, public freedoms, and education and employment opportunities, and founded the first women's press (Emadi, 2002;M...

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Using popular education for community empowerment: perspectives of Community Health Workers in thePoder es Salud/Power for Health program

Cited by 33 publications

References 34 publications

Advancing Understanding of the Characteristics and Capacity of African American Women Who Serve as Lay Health Advisors in Community-Based Settings

Advancing Understanding of the Characteristics and Capacity of African American Women Who Serve as Lay Health Advisors in Community-Based Settings

Exploring Strategies to Encourage Community Health Outreach by Health Promotion Volunteers in Japan

Beyond (the ABCs): education, community, and feminism in Afghanistan

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