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Community-Engaged Health Communication Strategies During the COVID 19 Pandemic: Experiences From Southern Andean Peru.
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251323637
Jeannie Samuel, Carmen J Yon, Ariel Frisancho, Luz Estrada, Milagro Lourdes Valdez Jaén, Domingo P Paucar Pari, Daniel Rojas
{"title":"Community-Engaged Health Communication Strategies During the COVID 19 Pandemic: Experiences From Southern Andean Peru.","authors":"Jeannie Samuel, Carmen J Yon, Ariel Frisancho, Luz Estrada, Milagro Lourdes Valdez Jaén, Domingo P Paucar Pari, Daniel Rojas","doi":"10.1177/2752535X251323637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X251323637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the work of a collective of community-based Indigenous health rights activists in southern Peru who, at the height of the pandemic, designed, recorded, and disseminated seven Quechua language and culturally tailored Public Service Announcements for radio broadcast to provide information about COVID-19 vaccines. The activists took initiative amid a dysfunctional vaccine roll-out, when vaccination rates in their region were among the lowest in the country, and when mortality rates from COVID-19 were very high. The experiences of the activist collective, including their participatory, community-based approach and their connections with health workers, demonstrate the importance of pre-existing, strong, respectful relationships between communities and health systems in times of public health crisis. This is not an easy task given that relationships between communities and Peru's government-run health system are complex and shaped by dynamics of power, including colonial legacies and contemporary injustices. This case critically reflects on the notion of resilience and provides insights into the enduring struggles by Indigenous activists to decolonize and strengthen the public health system by pushing for forms of community participation based on substantive partnerships with community-based actors that genuinely integrate their knowledge and expertise.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X251323637"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143635008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Food Systems, Indigenous Knowledge and Systems Thinking: A Case Study in Regional New Zealand.
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251324808
Rachael Glassey, David Tipene-Leach, David Rees, Boyd Swinburn
{"title":"Food Systems, Indigenous Knowledge and Systems Thinking: A Case Study in Regional New Zealand.","authors":"Rachael Glassey, David Tipene-Leach, David Rees, Boyd Swinburn","doi":"10.1177/2752535X251324808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X251324808","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The nutritional health of tamariki (children) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is poor. Nourishing Hawke's Bay (NHB) began as an initiative to address this problem in low advantage regions of Hawke's Bay (HB) and evolved into the evaluation of Ka Ora. Ka Ako the free, healthy school lunch programme, and the scoping of wider improvements in the regional food ecosystem.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The aim of this paper is to describe how NHB co-designed and evaluated food interventions incorporating systems thinking and mātauranga Māori (traditional knowledge), as lenses through which to view the initiative.</p><p><strong>Study sample and research design: </strong>Cognitive mapping interviews (n = 11) with community health and education leaders identified six key co-design principles or Pou (metaphorical posts) for NHB.</p><p><strong>Data collection: </strong>Further systems methods, such as group model building and system dynamics modelling, and mātauranga Māori methods, such as wānanga (Māori learning forums), involved the community in food systems mapping and intervention co-design and prioritisation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three Pou, 'food security,' 'mātauranga Māori' and 'children's hauora' (wellbeing), set the research agenda for NHB. the other three Pou, 'work with community,' 'cohesion and integration' and 'start with schools,' determined the subsequent research processes. Along with standard population evaluation methods (including quantitative and qualitative assessments of changes in student health and wellbeing), a participatory Value for Investment (VFI) analysis assessed return on investment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Combining systems thinking and mātauranga Māori is a novel, participatory approach co-creating pathways to improved nutrition and food security for tamariki and holds promise for wider food system changes in regional NZ.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X251324808"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143538091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Racially Equitable Homeless Services: Exploring Organizational Characteristics.
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251321535
Whitney Thurman, Elizabeth Heitkemper, Tara Hutson, Summer Wright, Amy Patten, Andrea Kaltz
{"title":"Racially Equitable Homeless Services: Exploring Organizational Characteristics.","authors":"Whitney Thurman, Elizabeth Heitkemper, Tara Hutson, Summer Wright, Amy Patten, Andrea Kaltz","doi":"10.1177/2752535X251321535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X251321535","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Racial disparities in homelessness are pervasive and necessitate sustained effort on improving racial equity in homeless services. This study used a community-engaged approach and qualitative methods to describe the role of informal organizations identified by Black adults with lived experience of homelessness as preferred locations for accessing services and to explore the values and beliefs of these informal organizations. The study included representatives (<i>N =</i> 19) of community organizations (<i>N</i> = 17) in one southern city. Most participants (<i>n</i> = 14, 73.6%) worked in paid positions and included executive directors as well as volunteers.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Thematic analysis identified three themes that characterized values and the ways in which these organizations interface with one another and with the formal homelessness response system (HRS): <i>boots-on-the-ground, the homelessness response system is inequitable,</i> and <i>cautious collaboration.</i> Findings reveal avenues through which local collaboration can be improved and potential policies to improve racial equity in homeless services.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Informal organizations fill critical gaps in services and can reach people experiencing homelessness who are unable or unwilling to access formal services. However, informal organizations often remain disconnected from the larger HRS which can exacerbate racial inequities. Community care hubs are a promising solution to incorporating smaller organizations and building a more integrated and equitable HRS.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X251321535"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Community Perspectives on Inequalities in the Provision of Basic Healthcare Services for the Most Vulnerable Populations in the Eastern Congo: A Qualitative Study.
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251321286
Dieudonné Bwirire, Rik Crutzen, Rianne Letschert, Edmond Ntabe Namegabe, Bonfils Cheruga, Juliette Mukwege, Trésor Amisi Kasaya, Nanne de Vries
{"title":"Community Perspectives on Inequalities in the Provision of Basic Healthcare Services for the Most Vulnerable Populations in the Eastern Congo: A Qualitative Study.","authors":"Dieudonné Bwirire, Rik Crutzen, Rianne Letschert, Edmond Ntabe Namegabe, Bonfils Cheruga, Juliette Mukwege, Trésor Amisi Kasaya, Nanne de Vries","doi":"10.1177/2752535X251321286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X251321286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is a notable lack of evidence regarding the factors that shape the provision of essential healthcare services in post-conflict settings.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to explore and describe the factors influencing the provision of basic health care services for the most vulnerable populations in the Eastern Congo.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Employing a qualitative research approach, twenty individual interviews with community members and thirteen focus group discussions were conducted. Participants were drawn from three geographically and demographically diverse locations with a history of decades-long armed conflicts in the Congo. Inductive thematic coding used the Health System Dynamics Framework categories (i.e. goals and outcomes, values and principles; service delivery; the population; the context; leadership & governance; and the organization of resources (finances; human resources; infrastructure and supplies; knowledge and information), while allowing for additional themes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our findings are presented thematically according to these ten categories. The following factors were perceived as key areas enabling or hindering healthcare provision to the community: (1) the context for organizing basic healthcare service delivery is complex and challenging; (2) the population plays a crucial role as an active producer of health and potential change agents; (3) there is a poor strategic policy framework to guide local-level communities in the provision of basic healthcare services; (4) several critical barriers and facilitators related to effective healthcare service delivery were identified; (5) the classification of basic health service delivery methods to meet the healthcare needs of the vulnerable population; (6) the healthcare system is pluralistic and consists of multiple overlapping systems and providers; and (7) service providers and potential service users still consider access to basic healthcare services challenging, potentially resulting in reduced coverage.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings suggest that substantial changes in the factors contributing to the provision of basic healthcare services are necessary to ensure the delivery of basic healthcare services to the most vulnerable populations in the Eastern Congo. Consequently, there is a critical need to reconsider the healthcare delivery system, specifically addressing these contributing factors in the context of the Eastern Congo.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X251321286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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'We're More Prepared than Before: Understanding the Strategies Used by a Non-governmental Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251317651
Satveer Dhillon, Isaac Luginaah, Susan J Elliott, Justine Nagawa, Ronah Agaba Niwagaba
{"title":"<i>'We're More Prepared than Before</i>: Understanding the Strategies Used by a Non-governmental Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.","authors":"Satveer Dhillon, Isaac Luginaah, Susan J Elliott, Justine Nagawa, Ronah Agaba Niwagaba","doi":"10.1177/2752535X251317651","DOIUrl":"10.1177/2752535X251317651","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on populations worldwide, particularly on older adults residing in low - and middle-income countries. Due to these negative impacts, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided extensive support, which affected their operations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using the social resilience framework, the purpose of this study was to better understand what strategies NGOs used to support vulnerable populations and how they are building back stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the fall of 2022, 26 (virtual) in-depth interviews were conducted with staff and volunteers from an NGO supporting older adults in Uganda.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Several key themes emerged including using existing resources to better support older adults and staff and the importance of having multiple sources of revenue to support organizational operations.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The key lessons learned by NGO staff and volunteers can be utilized to enact policy and practice change to help strengthen NGOs' social resilience. This would allow them to continue implementing innovative strategies to support vulnerable populations during times of crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X251317651"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Health-Related Social Needs Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults With Type 2 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study Using Human-Centered Design.
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251316990
Maya I Ragavan, Brianna Hewitt, Erin Mickievicz, Callie Laubacher, Caleb Harrison, Kristin N Ray, Abigail Carpenter, Lynne Williams, Bobbi Watts Geer, Arvin Garg, Mary Ellen Vajravelu
{"title":"Health-Related Social Needs Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults With Type 2 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study Using Human-Centered Design.","authors":"Maya I Ragavan, Brianna Hewitt, Erin Mickievicz, Callie Laubacher, Caleb Harrison, Kristin N Ray, Abigail Carpenter, Lynne Williams, Bobbi Watts Geer, Arvin Garg, Mary Ellen Vajravelu","doi":"10.1177/2752535X251316990","DOIUrl":"10.1177/2752535X251316990","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Youth-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasingly common and projected to impact over 200,000 adolescents and young adults by 2060. Youth with T2D frequently experience health-related social needs (HRSN) that increase their risk for poor outcomes. Using human-centered design methodology, we explored how best to address HRSN in pediatric endocrinology clinics. We conducted two parallel, six-session group meetings with youth (<i>n</i> = 4) and caregivers of youth (<i>n</i> = 6), as well as individual interviews with 12 pediatric endocrinology clinicians. An inductive thematic data analysis approach was used. Participants described that HRSN are pervasive for youth with T2D and are especially impactful after diagnosis. Participants thought that addressing HRSN in healthcare settings was important but emphasized that interventions need to be affirming and provide tangible, relevant resources. Engagement with community health workers trained around diabetes management is needed, as is structural change to disrupt health disparities. Future research and clinical transformation are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X251316990"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Liberal/Individualized Versus Materialist/Structuralist Approaches to Addressing Social and Health Inequalities: Education and Income as Social Determinants of Health.
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-01-26 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X251316086
Avery Ervin, Dennis Raphael
{"title":"Liberal/Individualized Versus Materialist/Structuralist Approaches to Addressing Social and Health Inequalities: Education and Income as Social Determinants of Health.","authors":"Avery Ervin, Dennis Raphael","doi":"10.1177/2752535X251316086","DOIUrl":"10.1177/2752535X251316086","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> While consensus exists that the sources of health inequalities are social inequalities brought on by the experience of qualitatively different living and working conditions, means of addressing these conditions continue to be the subject of dispute. Whether to emphasis education or income as a social determinant of health is one such example of differing views on the sources of these inequalities and the means of addressing them. These different emphases are often justified through the narrow examination of the magnitude of statistical relationships between educational attainment and income with health outcomes.<b>Purpose:</b> We offer a broader view, seeing these differing emphases as indicative of contrasting views of the nature of society and means of responding to these inequalities with emphasis on education representing a liberal reformist view of the issue while an emphasis on income representing a materialist structuralist view.<b>Research design and study sample:</b> We examine, the validity of this hypothesis through an analysis of content of five representative publications that consider educational attainment as a social determinant of health and five that do so for income.<b>Analysis and results:</b> We find that the emphasis on education as a social determinant of health focuses on the attributes of the individual and is generally accepting of the structures and processes of the existing economic and political order. In contrast, an emphasis on income - when placed within a materialist analysis - views existing systems as inequitably distributing income and other resources thereby requiring their reform or transformation.<b>Conclusion:</b> Considering evidence of deteriorating living and working conditions for many in Canada and elsewhere, we see the latter emphasis as more useful for understanding and addressing these disturbing developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X251316086"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143048722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Community Views of Determinants of Men's Wellbeing in Guatemala: A Study Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping. 危地马拉男性幸福决定因素的社区观点:一项使用模糊认知映射的研究。
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X241312378
Katherine W Pizarro, Anne M Chomat, Diego P Quieju, Bernardo Y López, Iván Sarmiento, Nicholas LeBel, Chloe Mancini, Neil Andersson, Danielle Groleau, Anne Cockcroft
{"title":"Community Views of Determinants of Men's Wellbeing in Guatemala: A Study Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping.","authors":"Katherine W Pizarro, Anne M Chomat, Diego P Quieju, Bernardo Y López, Iván Sarmiento, Nicholas LeBel, Chloe Mancini, Neil Andersson, Danielle Groleau, Anne Cockcroft","doi":"10.1177/2752535X241312378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X241312378","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In post-conflict Guatemala, Indigenous men's psychological distress has been linked to violence exposure, disrupted social support systems, and structural inequities.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>We aimed to document how communities themselves understand men's wellbeing and the factors that influence men's wellbeing.</p><p><strong>Research design and study sample: </strong>Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping with 20 stakeholder groups in Santiago Atitlán and Cuilco, Guatemala defined men's wellbeing in local terms and identified the influences community groups understood to promote and detract from men's wellbeing. Participants mapped pathways through which influences affected wellbeing and weighted their relative perceived strength.</p><p><strong>Analysis: </strong>The researchers used thematic analysis to summarise influences into 43 factors and used fuzzy transitive closure to calculate their net causal influence for each set of stakeholders. We compared perspectives of groups of adult men, adult women, and practitioners of Mayan medicine in Santiago Atitlán, with a primarily Indigenous population, to groups in Cuilco, with a primarily non-Indigenous population. We also compared perspectives across age groups in Santiago Atitlán.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across regions, maps highlighted the importance of family and social relations, emotional distress, substance use and physical health for men's wellbeing. Basic resource insecurity and unemployment were top risk factors for men's wellbeing in maps from Cuilco but had both risk and protective influences on men's wellbeing in maps from Santiago Atitlán.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings challenge the focus on scale-up of individual biomedical interventions as the best strategy to reduce the burden of emotional distress in Guatemala and raise questions about standard development approaches that emphasize income generation and educational attainment above cultural continuity and social harmony.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X241312378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143017336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Community Engagement in the BE SAGE Project: Reducing COVID-19 in Hispanic and Low-Income Preschoolers via Testing and Open-Air Garden-Based Education. 社区参与BE SAGE项目:通过测试和露天花园教育减少西班牙裔和低收入学龄前儿童的COVID-19感染。
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-01-05 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X241311172
Hector J Valdez, Michelle Santana, Sandra Genis, Edny Gonzalez, Joanna L Kramer, Rebecca E Lee
{"title":"Community Engagement in the BE SAGE Project: Reducing COVID-19 in Hispanic and Low-Income Preschoolers via Testing and Open-Air Garden-Based Education.","authors":"Hector J Valdez, Michelle Santana, Sandra Genis, Edny Gonzalez, Joanna L Kramer, Rebecca E Lee","doi":"10.1177/2752535X241311172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X241311172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Back to Early Care and Education Safely With Sustainability via Active Garden Education (BE SAGE) involved COVID-19 testing and a free garden-based physical activity and nutrition program at early care and education centers with primarily Hispanic/Latino enrollment. This article describes the project community engagement plan, process, and outcomes focusing on deliberate and intentional staffing, an extensive online presence, and focused outreach.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>BE SAGE purposefully hired bilingual (English/Spanish) and bicultural staff; developed and maintained a large bilingual online presence (website, newsletters, social media), and fostered community partnerships with community health workers (CHWs) and dedicated staff. Hiring records, online internet records, staff calendars, and field notes were coded and tabulated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>84% of the 13-member research team and all CHWs identified as Hispanic or Latino. Predominantly US users accessed the website (<i>N</i> = 3,108), 36.9% of received electronic newsletters were opened, and 1126 followed social media across four platforms. The Outreach Specialist fostered existing relationships and created new partnerships. With the help of CHWs, 562 research participants completed at least one COVID-19 test.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>By prioritizing representative staffing hires, expending substantial resources on an online presence, and establishing and nurturing our community partnerships, our BE SAGE community engagement approach helped to achieve study aims and create lasting community impact. Community engagement and partnerships to forward research requires ample funding and dedicated representative hiring polices to cultivate and maintain community relationships with asset-driven outcomes.</p><p><strong>Policy implications: </strong>Funding agencies must prioritize community engagement in research outcomes to ensure robust, meaningful scientific discovery and innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"2752535X241311172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Equity Impact of Universal Home Visits to Pregnant Women and Their Spouses in Bauchi State, Nigeria: Secondary Analysis From a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial. 尼日利亚包奇州孕妇及其配偶普遍家访的公平影响:集群随机对照试验的二次分析。
Community health equity research & policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/2752535X241249893
Anne Cockcroft, Loubna Belaid, Khalid Omer, Umaira Ansari, Amar Aziz, Yagana Gidado, Hadiza Mudi, Rilwanu Mohammed, Rakiya Sale, Neil Andersson
{"title":"The Equity Impact of Universal Home Visits to Pregnant Women and Their Spouses in Bauchi State, Nigeria: Secondary Analysis From a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial.","authors":"Anne Cockcroft, Loubna Belaid, Khalid Omer, Umaira Ansari, Amar Aziz, Yagana Gidado, Hadiza Mudi, Rilwanu Mohammed, Rakiya Sale, Neil Andersson","doi":"10.1177/2752535X241249893","DOIUrl":"10.1177/2752535X241249893","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Socio-economically disadvantaged women have poor maternal health outcomes. Maternal health interventions often fail to reach those who need them most and may exacerbate inequalities. In Bauchi State, Nigeria, a recent cluster randomised controlled trial (CRCT) showed an impressive impact on maternal health outcomes of universal home visits to pregnant women and their spouses. The home visitors shared evidence about local risk factors actionable by households themselves and the program included specific efforts to ensure all households in the intervention areas received visits.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To examine equity of the intervention implementation and its pro-equity impact.</p><p><strong>Research design and study sample: </strong>The overall study was a CRCT in a stepped wedge design, examining outcomes among 15,912 pregnant women.</p><p><strong>Analysis: </strong>We examined coverage of the home visits (three or more visits) and their impact on maternal health outcomes according to equity factors at community, household, and individual levels.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Disadvantaged pregnant women (living in rural communities, from the poorest households, and without education) were as likely as those less disadvantaged to receive three or more visits. Improvements in maternal knowledge of danger signs and spousal communication, and reductions in heavy work, pregnancy complications, and post-natal sepsis were significantly greater among disadvantaged women according to the same equity factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The universal home visits had equitable coverage, reaching all pregnant women, including those who do not access facility-based services, and had an important pro-equity impact on maternal health.</p>","PeriodicalId":72648,"journal":{"name":"Community health equity research & policy","volume":" ","pages":"141-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11577682/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140875058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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