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Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT)
It has been widely recognised that a significant proportion of the world’s population suffer inequalities in accessing high quality healthcare and wider services. Within healthcare, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to public health affecting all healthcare systems and growing at an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784169/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31426539 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030121 |
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author | Hood, Graeme Toleikyte, Lina Ashiru-Oredope, Diane |
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description | It has been widely recognised that a significant proportion of the world’s population suffer inequalities in accessing high quality healthcare and wider services. Within healthcare, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to public health affecting all healthcare systems and growing at an alarming pace. To ensure that national AMR campaigns developed by Public Health England are inclusive of all populations within the target audience a health equity assessment tool (HEAT) was used. The project leads for each campaign completed the HEAT independently with a follow up meeting with the study team to discuss and clarify the responses. A trend analysis was carried out with common themes being used to provide recommendations. The campaigns have demonstrated equality and diversity based on the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, particularly age, sex, and race protected characteristics. Some notable results include the translation of website materials in over 30 languages and reaching individuals in 122 countries. It was however noted that several of the protected characteristics were not applicable. The continuous development of resources with collaboration from a variety of diverse user groups would be advantageous towards aiding future campaign reach. The use of the HEAT has demonstrated the ease and cost-effective way to assess any health inequalities and would be a useful addition to antimicrobial stewardship and public health campaigns. |
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spelling | pubmed-67841692019-10-16 Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) Hood, Graeme Toleikyte, Lina Ashiru-Oredope, Diane Antibiotics (Basel) Article It has been widely recognised that a significant proportion of the world’s population suffer inequalities in accessing high quality healthcare and wider services. Within healthcare, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to public health affecting all healthcare systems and growing at an alarming pace. To ensure that national AMR campaigns developed by Public Health England are inclusive of all populations within the target audience a health equity assessment tool (HEAT) was used. The project leads for each campaign completed the HEAT independently with a follow up meeting with the study team to discuss and clarify the responses. A trend analysis was carried out with common themes being used to provide recommendations. The campaigns have demonstrated equality and diversity based on the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, particularly age, sex, and race protected characteristics. Some notable results include the translation of website materials in over 30 languages and reaching individuals in 122 countries. It was however noted that several of the protected characteristics were not applicable. The continuous development of resources with collaboration from a variety of diverse user groups would be advantageous towards aiding future campaign reach. The use of the HEAT has demonstrated the ease and cost-effective way to assess any health inequalities and would be a useful addition to antimicrobial stewardship and public health campaigns. MDPI 2019-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6784169/ /pubmed/31426539 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030121 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hood, Graeme Toleikyte, Lina Ashiru-Oredope, Diane Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) |
title | Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) |
title_full | Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) |
title_fullStr | Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) |
title_short | Assessing National Antimicrobial Resistance Campaigns Using a Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) |
title_sort | assessing national antimicrobial resistance campaigns using a health equity assessment tool (heat) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784169/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31426539 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030121 |
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