title: Contributions of Peer Support to Health, Health Care, and Prevention: Papers from Peers for Progress.
abstract: SUBSTANTIAL: evidence documents the benefits of peer support provided by community health workers, lay health advisors, promotores de salud, and others. The papers in this supplement, all supported by the Peers for Progress program of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, contribute to the growing body of literature addressing the efficacy, effectiveness, feasibility, reach, sustainability, and adoption of peer support for diabetes self-management. They and additional papers supported by Peers for Progress contribute to understanding how peer support can be implemented in real world settings. Topics include examination of the peers who provide peer support, reaching the hardly reached, success factors in peer support interventions, proactive approaches, attention to emotions, peer support in behavioral health, dissemination models and their application in China, peer support in the patient-centered medical home, research challenges, and policy implications.
authors: Peers for Progress, American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, Leawood, Kansas Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina edfisher@unc.edu.
authors: Edwin B
authors: EB
authors: Fisher
authors: San Diego State University College of Health and Human Services and Institute for Behavioral and Community Health, San Diego State University Research Foundation, San Diego, California.
authors: Guadalupe X
authors: GX
authors: Ayala
authors: Clínicas de Salud del Pueblo, Inc., Brawley, California.
authors: Leticia
authors: L
authors: Ibarra
authors: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
authors: Andrea L
authors: AL
authors: Cherrington
authors: San Diego State University College of Health and Human Services and Institute for Behavioral and Community Health, San Diego State University Research Foundation, San Diego, California.
authors: John P
authors: JP
authors: Elder
authors: University of British Columbia Department of Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia.
authors: Tricia S
authors: TS
authors: Tang
authors: University of Michigan Department of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors: Michele
authors: M
authors: Heisler
authors: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
authors: Monika M
authors: MM
authors: Safford
authors: School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Australia Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, England.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Simmons
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D010379:Peer Group; D012648:Self Care; D012944:Social Support