Development of Texas's First Chinese American Community Health Worker Certification for Family Health History-Based Cancer Prevention.
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Abstract
To address leading health organizations' calls for public health professionals to adopt family health history (FHH) into their practice, we developed the first community health worker Texas state-certification program focusing on FHH-based cancer prevention for Chinese Americans, for whom cancer is the leading cause of death. The 160-hour program trained 46 Chinese American CHWs to provide FHH-based cancer prevention services for 1129 Chinese Americans. Our program contributes to the establishment of a public health workforce with FHH-based competence and reduces cancer disparities. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(2):138-141. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307895).
Medical subject headings
- Community Health Workers
- Asian
- Neoplasms
- Certification