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The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There are overwhelming health disparities in the Deep South. It is important to include the voice of communities affected by these disparities when developing interventions. The goal of the current study was to develop an academic community engaged partnership to strengthen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10133505/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37124765 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.932451 |
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author | Newman, Sharlene D. Moss, Kimberly Pichon, Melonie Scott, Deborah Rogers, Kileema Orr, Angela Bui, Chuong Payne-Foster, Pamela |
author_facet | Newman, Sharlene D. Moss, Kimberly Pichon, Melonie Scott, Deborah Rogers, Kileema Orr, Angela Bui, Chuong Payne-Foster, Pamela |
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description | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There are overwhelming health disparities in the Deep South. It is important to include the voice of communities affected by these disparities when developing interventions. The goal of the current study was to develop an academic community engaged partnership to strengthen the ability to address priority health concerns of rural African American communities with a focus on health literacy and health advocacy. METHODS: A community-based participatory research approach was used to administer a 15-item community health survey in five rural communities led by African American mayors in Alabama (N = 752). The survey assessed the health concerns and the potential behaviors that may be associated with those health concerns. RESULTS: The five communities demonstrated similarities as well as differences in both the health concerns endorsed and the potential health behaviors that may contribute to those concerns. All five communities identified cardiovascular disease as a health concern with three endorsing mental health issues and 2 dental health. With respect to behaviors, all five communities identified either unhealthy eating/exercise and substance use as concerns with one community identifying racism as a risky behavior affecting health. CONCLUSION: The results presented replicate CBPR studies demonstrating that communities are important sources of information about local health priorities and concerns. |
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spelling | pubmed-101335052023-04-28 The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises Newman, Sharlene D. Moss, Kimberly Pichon, Melonie Scott, Deborah Rogers, Kileema Orr, Angela Bui, Chuong Payne-Foster, Pamela Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There are overwhelming health disparities in the Deep South. It is important to include the voice of communities affected by these disparities when developing interventions. The goal of the current study was to develop an academic community engaged partnership to strengthen the ability to address priority health concerns of rural African American communities with a focus on health literacy and health advocacy. METHODS: A community-based participatory research approach was used to administer a 15-item community health survey in five rural communities led by African American mayors in Alabama (N = 752). The survey assessed the health concerns and the potential behaviors that may be associated with those health concerns. RESULTS: The five communities demonstrated similarities as well as differences in both the health concerns endorsed and the potential health behaviors that may contribute to those concerns. All five communities identified cardiovascular disease as a health concern with three endorsing mental health issues and 2 dental health. With respect to behaviors, all five communities identified either unhealthy eating/exercise and substance use as concerns with one community identifying racism as a risky behavior affecting health. CONCLUSION: The results presented replicate CBPR studies demonstrating that communities are important sources of information about local health priorities and concerns. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10133505/ /pubmed/37124765 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.932451 Text en Copyright © 2023 Newman, Moss, Pichon, Scott, Rogers, Orr, Bui and Payne-Foster. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Newman, Sharlene D. Moss, Kimberly Pichon, Melonie Scott, Deborah Rogers, Kileema Orr, Angela Bui, Chuong Payne-Foster, Pamela The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises |
title | The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises |
title_full | The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises |
title_fullStr | The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises |
title_full_unstemmed | The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises |
title_short | The health of rural Black communities during COVID: Some affirmations, some surprises |
title_sort | health of rural black communities during covid: some affirmations, some surprises |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10133505/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37124765 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.932451 |
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