Community-clinic linkages: qualitative provider perspectives on partnering with community health representatives in Navajo Nation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand providers' opinions about the Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) Project designed to strengthen Navajo Community Health Representative (CHR) outreach to individuals living with diabetes.

Design

This was a qualitative study nested within a larger evaluation of a programme intervention.

Setting

The study took place in Navajo Nation and evaluated a programme initiative designed to strengthen collaboration between CHRs and clinic-based healthcare providers and provide structured outreach to individuals living with diabetes in Navajo Nation. The CHR Programme is a formal community health worker programme that exists in most tribal healthcare systems across the USA.

Participants

Healthcare providers involved in the programme too

SUBMITTER: Brown C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044898 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature