Social & Community Context Archives - Page 12 of 17

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.

Achieving the Health Equity Agenda Through Transformative Community-Engaged Strategies

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An essay examining whether conventional community engagement has reached its potential to advance health equity. It calls for transformative, power-aware strategies that position communities as equal decision makers.

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.

Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity through Transformed Systems for Health

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An introduction to the Assessing Community Engagement conceptual model, which centers equity, shared governance, trust, culturally centered approaches, and measurable outcomes of meaningful engagement.

Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021

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A review of quantitative approaches used to measure structural racism, highlights methodological innovations, and identifies gaps that limit the evaluation of antiracist policy and racial health equity.

Systemic and Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, and Approaches to Dismantling

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This article defines systemic and structural racism, explains pathways through which they harm health, and describes approaches for dismantling racist systems and advancing racial health equity.

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

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This publication reviews the root causes of health inequity, presents community-based solutions, and recommends actions that organizations and partners across sectors can take to expand opportunity and improve health equity.

Perspectives on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health

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This edited collection examines the research, policies, institutional systems, and community conditions that shape health inequities and offers recommendations for cross-sector action.

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.