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Meta salud: Building binational collaboration with community health workers for prevention of chronic disease


Monday, November 4, 2013

Elsa Cornejo, Centro de Estudios de Salud y Sociedad, Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo , Sonora, Mexico
Jill de Zapien, BA, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Catalina Denman, PhD, Centro de Estudios de Salud y Sociedad, El Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo , Sonora, Mexico
Cecilia Rosales, MD, MS, Community, Environment & Policy Division, Public Health Practice Program, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Lisa K. Staten, PhD, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
Scott Carvajal, PhD, MPH, Health Behavior Health Promotion, Division of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ
Maia Ingram, MPH, Deputy Director, Arizona Prevention Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

This presentation will discuss a binational collaboration of El Colegio de Sonora, the Secretaria de Salud in Sonora and the Arizona Prevention Research Center at the University of Arizona College of Public Health to develop and implement a community health worker chronic disease prevention curriculum and intervention in underserved communities in Mexico. The original curriculum, Pasos Adelante, was tested in the U.S.-Mexico border region for more than six years and was modeled after the Su Corazón, Su Vida curriculum developed by NHLBI. The newer Mexican curriculum, MetaSalud, was adapted to be used with the Secretaria de Salud in Sonora and has been implemented in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico for the past two years with more than 150 participants. The presentation will include: the adaption process highlighting those areas of the curriculum that were relevant to both populations as well as the changes to the curriculum for the population in Mexico; the similarities and differences of the community health worker role in implementation of the curriculum; results and outcomes of the intervention in the United States and Mexico; and challenges to the institutionalization of the program in both countries. Discussion will focus on lessons learned through this binational collaboration regarding the role of community health workers in chronic disease prevention, and future plans for collaborative binational health promotion interventions in the border region.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Chronic disease management and prevention
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Other professions or practice related to public health
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Describe the curriculum of Meta Salud developed for Northern Mexico Analyze the differences of the outcomes of the intervention in the U.S. border region and the northern Mexico region Identify the differences in roles of community health workers in the U.S. Border region and the northern Mexico region.

Keyword(s): Community Health Promoters, Community-Based Health Promotion

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the project director for the MetaSalud project in Mexico and have provided the overall leadership and coordination for the development and implementation of the project in Mexico
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.