The New Front Line of Public Health [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 12/22/164:00 AM

When Stephanie Brown, a community health worker (CHW) affiliated with a large health care system in Baltimore, sat across from her new client, she thought she’d be teaching the elderly woman to prepare a checklist of questions for her doctor.

Instead, the woman nervously admitted that her biggest concern was a waterline break in her house. She and her husband had no money to fix it, so they’d spent weeks wading through standing water. Even worse, they had no clean drinking water.

[For more of this story, written by Laura Bogart, go to http://www.citylab.com/work/20...ublic-health/511205/]

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