"Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas seems to have rather odd ideas of what minority outreach consists of as well.
With an advertising campaign that features the slogan "Los Ángeles Leemos Juntos/Angels Read Together," outreach consists of street teams canvassing local festivals, billboards and Spanish-language media.
Yet another kind of outreach consists of a technician who visits diabetic patients, for instance.
Patient outreach consists of personalized letters, automated telephone reminders, assistance with scheduling, and linkage of uninsured patients to the local National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program.
The city also deploys a homeless outreach team consisting of a police officer and social worker who talk to homeless people, offering rides to the shelter.
It was undertaken with one PHC outreach team consisting of ten CHWs and one team leader (a nurse).
In addition, each PHC ward will have at least one PHC outreach team consisting of a professional nurse, environmental health and health promotion practitioners, and four to five community health workers.
Brugha and Kevany [ 22] used a cluster-randomised design in Ghana to investigate the impact of an outreach intervention consisting of a home visit and referral note to a vaccination clinic followed by repeated visits by nurses to households of children who did not complete their vaccination schedule.
Two outreach teams, consisting of a doctor and a nurse experienced in TL and an assistant specialized in VL, served each study group, and all underwent the same training; having more than one team serving each group ensured that differences between groups were not due to a particular provider's experience and characteristics.
Their A&R outreach had consisted of going to Au Go Go's shop, where they were regular customers, and handing a cassette of what they had wrought to the proprietor, Bruce Milne.
