{"id":939,"date":"2020-06-04T06:44:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=939"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:59:56","slug":"community-health-workers-the-line-of-first-defense","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/community-health-workers-the-line-of-first-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Health Workers: The Line of First Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_940\" style=\"width: 1609px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-940 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Aspen-Ideas-Health-Festival.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1599\" height=\"1055\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Aspen-Ideas-Health-Festival.jpeg 1599w, https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Aspen-Ideas-Health-Festival-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Aspen-Ideas-Health-Festival-1024x676.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Aspen-Ideas-Health-Festival-768x507.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Aspen-Ideas-Health-Festival-1536x1013.jpeg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1599px) 100vw, 1599px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1599px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1599\/1055;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from the Aspen Institute<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Community health workers bring lifesaving care to hard-to-reach locations. More than one billion people inhabit areas so remote that they lack any access to healthcare, but not too remote to trigger fast-moving epidemics. Enter community health workers, who can detect disease outbreaks, identify malnutrition and malaria, and provide basic primary care. Once operating largely alone, these practitioners are now connecting through online platforms and learning communities to become a global movement.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full session from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenideas.org\/sessions\/community-health-workers-the-line-of-first-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Ideas: Health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":941,"template":"","publication_category":[51],"publication_theme":[62,57,79,71],"class_list":["post-939","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_category-publications","publication_theme-communications","publication_theme-health","publication_theme-healthcare-access","publication_theme-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}