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2022 Utah Code
Title 26 - Utah Health Code
Chapter 71 - Community Health Worker Certification
Section 101 - Definitions.
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UT Code § 26-71-101 (2022)
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Effective 5/4/2022
26-71-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
Enacted by Chapter 279, 2022 General Session
Technically renumbered to avoid duplication of newly enacted Chapter also in HB 176, Chapter 224 and HB 225, Chapter 327.
26-71-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
- (1) "Capacity building" means strengthening an individual's or a community's ability to participate in shared decision making.
- (2) "Community health worker" means an individual who:
- (a) works to improve a social determinant of health;
- (b) acts as an intermediary between a community and health services or social services to:
- (i) facilitate access to services; or
- (ii) improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery; and
- (c) increases health knowledge and self-sufficiency of an individual or a community through outreach, capacity building, community education, informal counseling, social support, and other similar activities.
- (3) "Core-skill education" means education regarding each of the following:
- (a) self-reliance;
- (b) outreach;
- (c) capacity building;
- (d) individual and community assessment;
- (e) coordination skills;
- (f) relationship building;
- (g) facilitation of services;
- (h) communication;
- (i) professional conduct; and
- (j) health promotion.
- (4) "Core-skill training" means:
- (a) 90 hours of competency-based education; and
- (b) 300 hours of community involvement as determined by the department through rule.
- (5) "Social determinate of health" means any condition in which an individual or a community lives, learns, works, plays, worships, or ages, that affects the individual's or the community's health or quality of life outcomes or risks.
- (6) "State certified" means that an individual has obtained the state certification described in Subsection 26-71-104(1).
Enacted by Chapter 279, 2022 General Session
Technically renumbered to avoid duplication of newly enacted Chapter also in HB 176, Chapter 224 and HB 225, Chapter 327.
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