Applying Community‐Based Participatory Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities and Promoting Health Equity

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 217-221
Author(s):  
Yolanda Suarez‐Balcazar ◽  
Vincent T. Francisco ◽  
Noé Rubén Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Participatory Approaches

scholarly journals A Community-Based Participatory Action Research for Roma Health Justice in a Deprived District in Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela E. Miranda ◽  
Manuel Garcia-Ramirez ◽  
Fabricio E. Balcazar ◽  
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Roma Health ◽  
Health Justice

Addressing health disparities and promoting health equity for Roma has been a challenge. The Roma are the largest disadvantaged ethnic minority population in Europe and have been the victims of deep social and economic injustices, institutional discrimination, and structural antigypsyism over many centuries. This has resulted in a much worse health status than their non-Roma counterparts. Current strategies based on ameliorative and top-down approaches to service delivery have resulted in paradoxical effects that solidify health disparities, since they do not effectively address the problems of vulnerable Roma groups. Following a health justice approach, we present a community-based participatory action research case study generated by a community and university partnership intended to address power imbalances and build collaboration among local stakeholders. This case study involved a group of health providers, Roma residents, researchers, Roma community organizations, and other stakeholders in the Poligono Sur, a neighborhood of Seville, Spain. The case study comprises four phases: (1) identifying Roma health assets, (2) empowering Roma community through sociopolitical awareness, (3) promoting alliances between Roma and community resources/institutions, and (4) building a common agenda for promoting Roma health justice. We highlighted best practices for developing processes to influence Roma health equity in local health policy agendas.

Translational research to reduce health disparities and promote health equity.

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-301
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Tucker ◽  
Shuchang Kang ◽  
Jaime L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Health Equity

Building Health Equity: Action Steps From the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Health Disparities Solutions Summit (HDSS) 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 155982762110522
Author(s):  
Arefa Cassoobhoy ◽  
Jasmol J. Sardana ◽  
Susan Benigas ◽  
Jean Tips ◽  
Alexandra Kees
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Equity

A Socially Just Leadership Approach to Community-Partnered Research for Reducing Health Disparities

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 781-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Tucker ◽  
Jaime L. Williams ◽  
Julia Roncoroni ◽  
Martin Heesacker
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
University Partnership ◽  
Partnership Approach ◽  
Leadership Approaches ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

Significant health disparities continue to plague many groups of people who have been systematically oppressed and largely unrepresented in health research. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that has been shown to be effective in addressing health disparities; a community–university partnership approach can be used to conduct this research. Counseling psychologists are well suited to establish and lead CBPR partnerships, yet there is a paucity of research to guide them in utilizing effective leadership approaches when conducting CBPR for reducing health disparities. Therefore, the aims of the present study were to (a) review existing leadership models applicable to conducting CBPR; (b) identify guiding principles of socially just leadership that emerged from the aforementioned review; (c) offer an example of how the guiding principles were used in a community–university partnership, highlighting challenges, solutions, and lessons learned; and (d) discuss the benefits of socially just leadership for counseling psychologists.

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