Participatory Research Archives - Collective For Health Equity

Reported community engagement in health equity research published in high-impact medical journals: a scoping review

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A scoping review of 626 health-equity-focused articles that examines how often and at what stages communities were engaged. It finds that reported engagement was uncommon and rarely extended across the full research process.

Advancing community-engaged research to promote health equity: considerations to improve the field

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An overview of community-engaged research approaches, their value for health equity, and practical steps for applying core principles while avoiding tokenistic engagement.

Using Race and Ethnicity Data to Advance Health Equity: Examples, Promising Practices, Remaining Challenges, and Next Steps

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This report examines how health care organizations collect and use race and ethnicity data, identifies ongoing data quality and governance barriers, and shares promising practices for monitoring and reducing inequities.

Community Power and Health Equity: Closing the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

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This report explores how community power influences health and health equity by connecting research, organizing practices, policy change, and investment in community-led solutions.

Transformational Community Engagement to Advance Health Equity

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This publication explains how community engagement can advance health equity when it shares decision-making power, addresses power imbalances, and is grounded in trust, transparency, mutual accountability, and sustained relationships.

Leveraging Demographic Data to Advance Health Care Quality in California

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This report identifies practical strategies for improving demographic data collection, monitoring disparities, engaging communities, and using data to strengthen health care quality and equity in California.

Improving Health Equity through ABCD

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This learning material introduces Asset-Based Community Development as an approach that helps communities build on their existing strengths, resources, and potential while centering community members as active participants in improving their own health and well-being.