Blanca Meléndrez, Shana Wright, Adriana M Bearse, Lan T Nguyễn, Jaclyn Resnick, Eric Hekler, Delfina Alvarez, Maribel Arias, David Barber-Dunham, Earl Felisme, Judit Garcia, Tana Lepule, Rocina Lizarraga, Regina Moreno, Naomi Billups, Katie Gordon, Luis Galvan, Liliana Osorio, Bill Oswald, Lexie Palacio, Shaila Serpas
{"title":"Transforming a Regional Initiative by Building Community Power to Advance Health Equity.","authors":"Blanca Meléndrez, Shana Wright, Adriana M Bearse, Lan T Nguyễn, Jaclyn Resnick, Eric Hekler, Delfina Alvarez, Maribel Arias, David Barber-Dunham, Earl Felisme, Judit Garcia, Tana Lepule, Rocina Lizarraga, Regina Moreno, Naomi Billups, Katie Gordon, Luis Galvan, Liliana Osorio, Bill Oswald, Lexie Palacio, Shaila Serpas","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a967356","DOIUrl":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a967356","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report describes the transformation of a San Diego County collective impact initiative to center community voices through the co-creation of a community council to address childhood obesity. We present seven suggested recommendations for others interested in forming a community council within a collective impact effort and highlight challenges and future directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 3S","pages":"24-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144876089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Darcy L Sullivan, Kelsey Goddard, Noelle K Kurth, Jean P Hall
{"title":"\"I'm in Hell …\": Experiences of Unmet Health Care Needs Among People with Pre-Existing Disability and Long COVID.","authors":"Darcy L Sullivan, Kelsey Goddard, Noelle K Kurth, Jean P Hall","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959114","DOIUrl":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The unmet health care needs of people with pre-existing disabilities who have long COVID are understudied. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people with disabilities experienced barriers to accessing care and supplies needed to prevent and treat COVID-19. Once they had contracted COVID-19, people with disabilities were more likely to develop long COVID compared with people without disabilities. Using the 2022 National Survey on Health and Disability, this study aimed to compare how unmet health care needs differ among people with pre-existing disabilities with and without long COVID. We examined bivariate associations between unmet health care needs and respondents' demographic characteristics and responses to open-ended survey questions. About 73% of respondents with long COVID reported unmet health care needs compared with 62.6% of respondents without long COVID. Four key themes emerge from open-ended responses: exacerbation of existing disability, navigating the health care system, gaslighting by health care providers, and financial burdens.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 2","pages":"572-589"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12244464/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143992436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annette M Dekker, Lynn Langton, Jaclyn Houston-Kolnik, Alicia Boccellari, Breena R Taira
{"title":"Trauma Recovery Centers as an Innovative Model of Care for Underserved Victims of Violent Crime.","authors":"Annette M Dekker, Lynn Langton, Jaclyn Houston-Kolnik, Alicia Boccellari, Breena R Taira","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2025.a959126","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are more than six million violent crimes annually in the United States, with persons from communities of color and lower socioeconomic status at highest risk. This article introduces the Trauma Recovery Center model of care for underserved victims that provides comprehensive mental health and case management services to all survivors of violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 2","pages":"748-756"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Penelope Schlesinger, Princess Asante, Kasia Lipska, Danya E Keene
{"title":"Work or Wellness? Examining the Challenges of Low-Wage Workers with Type 2 Diabetes.","authors":"Penelope Schlesinger, Princess Asante, Kasia Lipska, Danya E Keene","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959110","DOIUrl":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Type 2 diabetes disproportionately affects low-income and racially marginalized communities. Several social and economic factors intersect to create and reproduce this unequal burden. This qualitative study explores how low-wage workers experience and navigate diabetes management in the workplace. Our findings highlight how unpredictable work schedules, lack of access to sick leave, and inflexible work environments with limited worker autonomy create significant barriers to diabetes self-management. These challenges are compounded by limited control over work conditions and societal norms that emphasize personal responsibility. To address these disparities, we propose multi-level interventions, including educational campaigns on workplace rights, policy changes promoting flexible scheduling and paid sick leave, raising the minimum wage to improve economic security, and routine screenings by health care providers to explore workplace factors that may be affecting diabetes control.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 2","pages":"493-507"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144046381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Program to Improve Chronic Disease Management in Immigrant and Minority Communities.","authors":"Kara Smith, Caitlin Washburn","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2025.a959109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate the health impacts of a community health worker (CHW) program in an urban clinic serving uninsured and underinsured patients, the vast majority of whom are non-English speaking and/or have recently immigrated to the United States. Over a three-year period between January 2019 and March 2022, 1,139 clinic patients were invited to participate in a CHW program based on evidence of chronic disease including obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. During a 90-day program, enrollees demonstrated statistically significant improvement in clinical values including weight (mean reduction of 2.8 pounds), hemoglobin A1c (mean reduction of 0.49), and blood pressure (mean systolic pressure reduction of 3.1 points). We offer initial evidence on the cost-effectiveness of this intervention relative to other means of achieving similar outcomes and suggest that CHW programs are a high-value intervention within immigrant and minority communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 2","pages":"480-492"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Does a Learner-Driven Pre-Health Pathway Program for Underrepresented Minority Students Impact Participants?","authors":"Juan Robles, Maria Mora, Aurelio Diaz, Zoon Naqvi","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2025.a959121","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pre-health pathway programs provide an important learning environment for students seeking careers in health care. We aim to assess how the Bronx Community Health Leaders (BxCHL), a longitudinal and learner-driven mentorship program for socioeconomically disadvantaged students and students belonging to groups underrepresented in medicine (URiM), affects the students' personal and professional development. We conducted a survey and analyzed the responses from 61 students who participated in the program for various lengths of time. Quantitative assessment shows measurable changes in the students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward health care careers. The qualitative assessment identified six themes that highlight perceived changes in students' confidence, personal/professional growth, mentorship, leadership skills, agents of change, and community service. The BxCHL's program student-driven design positively affects the students' readiness to enter health care professions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 2","pages":"685-700"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143990932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Attitudes toward Premiums in the Medicaid Program: The Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Deservingness.","authors":"Simon F Haeder","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2025.a959106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently, several states renewed efforts to implement Medicaid premiums. If implemented, premiums will substantially reduce enrollment. To explore the role that race/ethnicity and deservingness of beneficiaries may play in shaping public opinion towards Medicaid premiums, and how ideology and racial resentment may affect public attitudes, this study relied on a national survey (N=4,177) that contained an experiment using racially/ethnically identifiable names and different life circumstances of potential beneficiaries. The experiment highlighted the malleability of public attitudes related to Medicaid, identifying consistently lower levels of support for Medicaid premiums for people with a disability and single mothers compared with people with substance use disorder and single women across various analyses. No differences based on the race/ethnicity of the beneficiary presented were found. Liberals and those low in racial resentment were consistently less supportive of premiums than their counterparts. The findings help elucidate the continuing struggle over the nature of Medicaid.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 2","pages":"427-444"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144022348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emma Boswell, Elizabeth Crouch, Cassie Odahowski, Peiyin Hung
{"title":"Rural-Urban Differences in the Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Following the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Emma Boswell, Elizabeth Crouch, Cassie Odahowski, Peiyin Hung","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a959111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2025.a959111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but rural-urban differences have not yet been analyzed. This study examines rural-urban disparities in the prevalence of and predictors of experiencing ACEs during COVID-19.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using data from the 2021-2022 National Health Interview Survey, rural-urban differences in the type and number of ACEs and the odds of having experienced four or more ACEs were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Rural children were more likely to experience most ACEs; there were no significant differences for racial discrimination. After adjustment, there were no rural-urban differences in the odds of having four or more ACEs. Children with a lower household income had greater odds of experiencing four or more ACEs than those with a higher income, regardless of rurality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings of this study may be helpful in guiding stakeholders considering the populations in need of resources for impacts of ACEs, particularly rural children and children in poverty.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 2","pages":"508-525"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144046377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark V Mooney, Fil Mendez Guipoco, Lillian Gutierrez-Alvarez, Kennedy Harrison, Linda B King, Timothy McCray, Janak Deepak Patel, Gita Rampersad, Alizay Rizvi, Kyna Shine, Eduardo Sanchez
{"title":"Enhancing Patient Engagement and Hypertension Control Rates through Tailored Technical Assistance in Community Health Centers.","authors":"Mark V Mooney, Fil Mendez Guipoco, Lillian Gutierrez-Alvarez, Kennedy Harrison, Linda B King, Timothy McCray, Janak Deepak Patel, Gita Rampersad, Alizay Rizvi, Kyna Shine, Eduardo Sanchez","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a951606","DOIUrl":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a951606","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tailored technical assistance enhances patient and provider engagement and hypertension control in community health centers. Addressing each center's particular needs, the approach described here focused on self-measured blood pressure monitoring, training, and skills-building, and strengthening community-clinic linkages. Systematic approaches to stakeholder engagement can enhance health care delivery and improve hypertension control rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 1","pages":"401-409"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143434136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black History Month and Research Topics of Special Interest.","authors":"Virginia M Brennan","doi":"10.1353/hpu.2025.a951581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2025.a951581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48101,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved","volume":"36 1","pages":"vii-viii"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143434178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}