About this Research Topic
The research community has increasingly acknowledged the importance of engaging community leaders, patients, and stakeholders as equal partners in all phases of research. These partnerships ensure the research concerns of populations with a lived experience are acknowledged and addressed. In public health research that applies engaged approaches, the primary focus is to reduce social, structural, and physical environmental inequities through the active involvement of community members, organizational representatives, and researchers. Yet, such outcomes require collaborative, mutually beneficial partnerships between academic and non-academic parties that acknowledge stakeholders as equitable partners.
Community-based research in public health is designed to establish a shared understanding of a given phenomenon and to integrate knowledge gained into practice with an ultimate benefit to the community-at-large. These communities represent the underserved, economically constrained, and minoritized groups. The absence of their voice exacerbates existing health inequities and disparities in these communities.
Eliminating health disparities requires a combined effort from multiple stakeholders. Novel approaches to achieving equitable partnership between the various stakeholders involved in public health research and representation of community constituents to address both health inequities are critically needed. This coordinated effort offers a more representative knowledge base, from grassroots to policy level, to efficiently address the public health needs of community stakeholders. This collection highlights efforts that describe engagement approaches that establish and employ equitable partnerships in public health research.
For this collection, we seek submissions documenting the development and/or implementation of engagement approaches applied within public health research, from design to dissemination. Topics include but are not limited to:
a) Innovative strategies of partnering with stakeholders to design, implement, evaluate, and disseminate public health research;
b) Comparative evaluation of engagement approaches;
c) Models of community and/or patient engagement to address health inequities;
d) Tools and instruments to measure stakeholder engagement outcomes;
e) Measures of success for effective stakeholder engagement;
f) Methods to sustain stakeholder engagement;
g) Methods for engagement in contexts of complexity and uncertainty, such as the intersection between health and climate change;
h) Case study examples of successful community empowerment;
Articles should include original research or perspectives rather than reviews or commentaries
Community-based research in public health is designed to establish a shared understanding of a given phenomenon and to integrate knowledge gained into practice with an ultimate benefit to the community-at-large. These communities represent the underserved, economically constrained, and minoritized groups. The absence of their voice exacerbates existing health inequities and disparities in these communities.
Eliminating health disparities requires a combined effort from multiple stakeholders. Novel approaches to achieving equitable partnership between the various stakeholders involved in public health research and representation of community constituents to address both health inequities are critically needed. This coordinated effort offers a more representative knowledge base, from grassroots to policy level, to efficiently address the public health needs of community stakeholders. This collection highlights efforts that describe engagement approaches that establish and employ equitable partnerships in public health research.
For this collection, we seek submissions documenting the development and/or implementation of engagement approaches applied within public health research, from design to dissemination. Topics include but are not limited to:
a) Innovative strategies of partnering with stakeholders to design, implement, evaluate, and disseminate public health research;
b) Comparative evaluation of engagement approaches;
c) Models of community and/or patient engagement to address health inequities;
d) Tools and instruments to measure stakeholder engagement outcomes;
e) Measures of success for effective stakeholder engagement;
f) Methods to sustain stakeholder engagement;
g) Methods for engagement in contexts of complexity and uncertainty, such as the intersection between health and climate change;
h) Case study examples of successful community empowerment;
Articles should include original research or perspectives rather than reviews or commentaries
Keywords: Community engagement, Community-based participatory research, Evidence-based Practice, Population-based Practice, Translational Research
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