"Expanding the role of community health workers could help to solve persistent economic disparities in health care in the New York region," Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, president of The New York Academy of Medicine, said yesterday at an event sponsored by the Regional Plan Association to explore the role of urban planning in health care.
"Currently, those health workers spend more time helping patients navigate the health care system and keep their appointments than on improving patient health outcomes. But in the future, their responsibilities might expand to include such activities as conducting environmental assessments of clients' homes to detect pollutants that might aggravate asthma—work that might have previously fallen to a city agency," said Boufford.
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