Community health worker outreach to farmworkers in rural North Carolina: Learning from adaptations to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Background: Community health workers represent a critical part of the health outreach and services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers ('farmworkers') in rural areas of the United States.

Purpose: We sought to identify adaptations to farmworker patient engagement and health outreach made by community health workers during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: In this qualitative study, we used semi-structured interviews with community health workers from August 2020 to February 2022 (n = 21).

"I'm going to be forced to have a baby": A study of COVID-19 abortion experiences on Reddit.

Introduction: The initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic affected abortion care in the United States (US) in myriad ways. While research has documented systems-level pandemic-related impacts on abortion access and care delivery little information exists about the experiences of abortion seekers during this period. We sought to document the effects of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions US abortion seekers by analyzing posts on Reddit, a popular social media website.

Digital Inclusion for Farmworkers in a Pandemic: The North Carolina Farmworker Health Program Internet Connectivity Project, 2020‒2021.

The North Carolina Farmworker Health Program (NCFHP) implemented an emergency program in response to North Carolina migrant and seasonal farmworkers' urgent need for Internet access for health information, family connections, and telehealth services during COVID-19 isolation and quarantine. This article describes the NCFHP Internet Connectivity Project implementation and evaluation from June 2020 to December 2021. The project placed 448 devices across the state and provided Internet access to more than 3184 farmworkers during the 2021 peak farming season.

Descriptive Analysis and Profile of Health Care Transition Services Provided to Adolescents and Emerging Adults in the Movin' On Up Health Care Transition Program.

Global efforts are underway to develop, implement and test health care transition (HCT) models of care. Most studies have focused on the transfer of care models. In contrast, the nurse-led interdisciplinary HCT model, Movin' On Up, provides comprehensive HCT services beginning in early adolescence.