Development of Texas's First Chinese American Community Health Worker Certification for Family Health History-Based Cancer Prevention

Am J Public Health. 2025 Feb;115(2):138-141. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307895.

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. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(2):138-141. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307895).

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Asian*
  • Certification*
  • Community Health Workers*
  • Family Health / ethnology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Medical History Taking
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms* / ethnology
  • Neoplasms* / prevention & control
  • Texas