Family & Community Health Call for Articles

Deadline: August 2, 2011

Call for articles on Community Lay Health Promoters/Community Health Workers

The interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal Family & Community Health will produce an issue on lay health promoters/community health workers (CHW) also known as lay health workers, village health workers, promotoras, etc. Articles are due by August 2, 2011 to Issue Co-Editors Elizabeth Reifsnider, Elnora (Nonie) P. Mendias, and Yolanda R. Davila, at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing in Galveston, Texas. Please submit manuscripts for consideration electronically to nmendias@utmb.edu and yrdavila@utmb.edu . Articles are being solicited on topics as follows:

• Building infrastructure that supports lay health promoters/CHWs
  
  • Examples of training programs for lay health workers/CHW
    
  • Examples of effectiveness of training, supporting, and maintaining lay health workers/CHWs
    
• Lay health promoters/CHW and environmental health
  
• Building community partnerships for lay health promoters/ CHWs
  
• Using lay health workers/CHW with vulnerable populations
  
• Research
  
  • Examples of research using lay health workers/CHWs
    
  • Evaluation research using lay health workers/CHWs
    
• Historical development or current trends and definitions of lay health workers/CHWs
  
• Concept analyses or systematic or integrative reviews related to lay health workers/CHWs

Family & Community Health (FCH) focuses on healthcare practitioners regardless of area of practice. The journal’s overall goal is to provide a forum to discuss a holistic approach to family and community healthcare and primary healthcare, including health promotion and disease prevention. Each issue of FCH focuses on a specific topic that can be used by faculty, practitioners, and students in a range of healthcare disciplines.