Chw Intermut

Community Health Workers have the task of guiding people in socially vulnerable situations to primary health care and making them familiar with it. They visit people and make contacts to inform them about health and health care. Together, the health insurance funds currently employ about 50 Community Health Workers (CHW). In this way, they help the most vulnerable people on their way to, for example, a GP, pharmacy, dentist, psychologist, etc. At the same time, they are very well placed to notice structural problems and inequalities in access to care. This approach must, among other things, expose barriers in access to care so that they can be tackled.