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January 2008, Vol 98, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 11-14
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.100842

COMMENTARY

Community Health Workers: Social Justice and Policy Advocates for Community Health and Well-Being

Leda M. Pérez, PhD and Jacqueline Martinez, MPH

Leda M. Pérez is with Community Voices Miami, Collins Center for Public Policy, Miami, Fla. At the time of this commentary’s writing, Jacqueline Martinez was with Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Leda M. Pérez, Director, Community Voices Miami, Collins Center for Public Policy, 150 SE 2nd Ave, Suite 709, Miami, FL 33131 (e-mail: lperez{at}collinscenter.org).

Community health workers are resources to their communities and to the advocacy and policy world on several levels.

Community health workers can connect people to health care and collect information relevant to policy. They are natural researchers who, as a result of direct interaction with the populations they serve, can recount the realities of exclusion and propose remedies for it. As natural researchers, they contribute to best practices while informing public policy with the information they can share.

In this light, community health workers may also be advocates for social justice.






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