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Nieto-Sanchez C, Hatley DM, Grijalva MJ, Peeters Grietens K, Bates BR. Communication in Neglected Tropical Diseases' elimination: A scoping review and call for action. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2022; 16:e0009774. [PMID: 36228006 PMCID: PMC9595560 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Although the practice of communication is often called upon when intervening and involving communities affected by NTDs, the disciplinary framework of health communication research has been largely absent from NTD strategies. To illustrate how practices conceptualized and developed within the communication field have been applied in the context of NTD elimination, we conducted a scoping review focusing on two diseases currently targeted for elimination by the WHO: lymphatic filariasis and Chagas disease. METHODS We examined studies published between 2012 and 2020 in five electronic databases. Selected articles were required to (i) have explicit references to communication in either the abstract, title, or key words; (ii) further elaborate on the search terms (communication, message, media, participation and health education) in the body of the article; and (iii) sufficiently describe communication actions associated to those terms. Using the C-Change Socio-Ecological Model for Social and Behavior Change Communication as a reference, the articles were analysed to identify communication activities, theoretical frameworks, and/or rationales involved in their design, as well as their intended level of influence (individual, interpersonal, community, or enabling environment). RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS A total of 43 articles were analysed. Most interventions conceptualized communication as a set of support tools or supplemental activities delivering information and amplifying pre-defined messages aimed at increasing knowledge, encouraging community involvement, promoting individual behavior change, or securing some degree of acceptability of proposed strategies. Although important attempts at further exploring communication capabilities were identified, particularly in participation-based strategies, for most studies, communication consisted of an underdeveloped and under-theorized approach. We contend that a more complex understanding of the capacities offered by the health communication field could help attain the biomedical and social justice goals proposed in NTD elimination strategies. Three ways in which the field of health communication could further enhance NTD efforts are presented: informing interventions with theory-based frameworks, exploring the political complexity of community participation in specific contexts, and identifying conceptualizations of culture implied in interventions' design. CONCLUSION This article is a call to action to consider the resources offered by the health communication field when researching, designing, or implementing NTD interventions.
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- Claudia Nieto-Sanchez
- Socio-Ecological Health Research Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute (ITDI), Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America
- Center for Research in Health in Latin America (CISeAL), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Socio-Ecological Health Research Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Nagasaki, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute (ITDI), Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America
- Center for Research in Health in Latin America (CISeAL), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America
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Manalo-Pedro E, Mackey A, Banawa RA, Apostol NJL, Aguiling W, Aguilar A, Oronce CIA, Sabado-Liwag MD, Yee MD, Taggueg R, Bacong AM, Ponce NA. Learning to love ourselves again: Organizing Filipinx/a/o scholar-activists as antiracist public health praxis. Front Public Health 2022; 10:958654. [PMID: 36062092 PMCID: PMC9437515 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.958654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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A critical component for health equity lies in the inclusion of structurally excluded voices, such as Filipina/x/o Americans (FilAms). Because filam invisibility is normalized, denaturalizing these conditions requires reimagining power relations regarding whose experiences are documented, whose perspectives are legitimized, and whose strategies are supported. in this community case study, we describe our efforts to organize a multidisciplinary, multigenerational, community-driven collaboration for FilAm community wellness. Catalyzed by the disproportionate burden of deaths among FilAm healthcare workers at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying silence from mainstream public health leaders, we formed the Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association (FilCHA). FilCHA is a counterspace where students, faculty, clinicians, and community leaders across the nation could collectively organize to resist our erasure. By building a virtual, intellectual community that centers our voices, FilCHA shifts power through partnerships in which people who directly experience the conditions that cause inequities have leadership roles and avenues to share their perspectives. We used Pinayism to guide our study of FilCHA, not just for the current crisis State-side, but through a multigenerational, transnational understanding of what knowledges have been taken from us and our ancestors. By naming our collective pain, building a counterspace for love of the community, and generating reflections for our communities, we work toward shared liberation. Harnessing the collective power of researchers as truth seekers and organizers as community builders in affirming spaces for holistic community wellbeing is love in action. This moment demands that we explicitly name love as essential to antiracist public health praxis.
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- Erin Manalo-Pedro
- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- VA Advanced HSR Fellowship, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Department of Public Health, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Bulosan Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Stanford University Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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- Data and Research Committee, Filipinx/a/o Community Health Association, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Petiwala A, Lanford D, Landers G, Minyard K. Community voice in cross-sector alignment: concepts and strategies from a scoping review of the health collaboration literature. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:712. [PMID: 33849498 PMCID: PMC8042631 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-10741-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Health care access is an important driver of population health, and factors beyond health care also drive health outcomes. Recognizing the importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH), different actors in the health care, public health, and social service sectors are increasingly collaborating to improve health outcomes in communities. To support such collaboration, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation developed a cross-sector alignment theory of change. According to the cross-sector alignment theory of change, community voice is critical for helping collaboratives address community health needs. Yet research on health collaboratives offers mixed guidance on how community voice should be understood and which community voice strategies are most effective. Methods This study addresses a gap in the literature with a systematic scoping review of research on health-oriented cross-sector collaboration and community voice. By scanning key academic journals, searching three academic databases, and obtaining documents from across our professional networks, we identified 36 documents that address community voice in health collaboratives. Results The review reveals several conceptions of community voice and a range of community voice strategies. We find that community voice strategies fall on a spectrum between two broad types of approaches: active and passive. These vary not only in the level of power shared between communities and collaborators, but also in the level of involvement required from the community, and this in turn has important implications for community collaboration strategies. We also find that while most strategies are discussed in the context of short-term collaboration, many also lend themselves to adoption in the context of sustainable collaboration and, ultimately, cross-sector alignment. Conclusion This review provides a characterization and conceptualization of community voice in health-oriented collaborations that provides a new theoretical basis for future research. Passive and active community voice strategies can be studied in more detail for their expected impact on health outcomes and disparities. Increased attention to active community voice and the resources it requires can help practitioners achieve improved health outcomes and researchers understand the pathways to health improvement through collaboration.
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- Aliza Petiwala
- Georgia Health Policy Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 55 Park Place 8th Floor, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
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- Georgia Health Policy Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 55 Park Place 8th Floor, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Georgia Health Policy Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 55 Park Place 8th Floor, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Georgia Health Policy Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 55 Park Place 8th Floor, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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Airhihenbuwa CO, Iwelunmor J, Munodawafa D, Ford CL, Oni T, Agyemang C, Mota C, Ikuomola OB, Simbayi L, Fallah MP, Qian Z, Makinwa B, Niang C, Okosun I. Culture Matters in Communicating the Global Response to COVID-19. Prev Chronic Dis 2020; 17:E60. [PMID: 32644918 PMCID: PMC7367065 DOI: 10.5888/pcd17.200245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Current communication messages in the COVID-19 pandemic tend to focus more on individual risks than community risks resulting from existing inequities. Culture is central to an effective community-engaged public health communication to reduce collective risks. In this commentary, we discuss the importance of culture in unpacking messages that may be the same globally (physical/social distancing) yet different across cultures and communities (individualist versus collectivist). Structural inequity continues to fuel the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on black and brown communities nationally and globally. PEN-3 offers a cultural framework for a community-engaged global communication response to COVID-19.
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- C O Airhihenbuwa
- School of Public Health, Georgia State University, 140 Decatur St, Atlanta, GA 30303.
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- College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Community Medicine, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe
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- Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Public Health, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
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- National Public Health Institute of Liberia, Office of the Director-Monrovia, Greater Montrovia, Liberia
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- College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri
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- AUNIQUEI, Office of the Director and Chief Executive Officer-Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria; Former Director of African Region of United Nations Population Fund
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
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- School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Ortiz K, Nash J, Shea L, Oetzel J, Garoutte J, Sanchez-Youngman S, Wallerstein N. Partnerships, Processes, and Outcomes: A Health Equity-Focused Scoping Meta-Review of Community-Engaged Scholarship. Annu Rev Public Health 2020; 41:177-199. [PMID: 31922931 PMCID: PMC8095013 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040119-094220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scholarship examining the usefulness of community-engaged research (CEnR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) for eliminating health inequities.This article seeks to synthesize the extant literature of systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and other related reviews regarding the context, processes, and research designs and interventions underlying CEnR that optimize its effectiveness. Through a scoping review, we have utilized an empirically derived framework of CBPR to map this literature and identify key findings and priorities for future research. Our study found 100 reviews of CEnR that largely support the CBPR conceptual framework.
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- Kasim Ortiz
- Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA;
- College of Population Health, Center for Participatory Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
- Institute for the Study of "Race" and Social Justice, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- College of Population Health, Center for Participatory Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- College of Population Health, Center for Participatory Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, 3240 Hamilton, New Zealand
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- College of Population Health, Center for Participatory Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
- Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest (BHRCS), Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA
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- College of Population Health, Center for Participatory Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
- Center for Social Policy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
- School of Public Administration, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- College of Population Health, Center for Participatory Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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