Lazos Hispanos: Promising Strategies and Lessons Learned in the Development of a Multisystem, Community-Based Promotoras Program

• Published in: The Journal of primary prevention Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 229 - 243
• Main Authors: Matthew, Rebecca A., Orpinas, Pamela, Calva, Alejandra, Bermudez, J. Maria, Darbisi, Carolina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Community and Environmental Psychology; Community health care; Community Relations; Health care access; Health care delivery; Health Psychology; Hispanic Americans; Medical personnel; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Paper; Participatory research; Preventive medicine; Public Health; Social Services; United States > US; Community-based participatory research; Latinx; Engagement strategies; Community health workers; Promotoras

U.S. Latinos face multiple inter-related barriers to access health and social services. Researchers and practitioners have called upon community-based participatory research (CBPR) to address such challenges and health disparities, with the community health worker—or promotoras —model evidencing pos...