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Building a Narrative of Equity: Weaving Indigenous Approaches into Community-Engaged Research

In 2020, global injustice has taken center stage during the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement and other social movements. Activists are calling attention to longstanding disparities in health outcomes and an urgent need for justice. Given the global socio-political moment, how can health r...

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Autores principales: Hardy, Lisa J., Shaw, Kevin, Hughes, Amy, Hulen, Elizabeth, Sanderson, Priscilla R., Corrales, Candi, Pinn, Travis, Esplain, Jamie, Begay, R. Cruz
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32708798
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145148
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author Hardy, Lisa J.
Shaw, Kevin
Hughes, Amy
Hulen, Elizabeth
Sanderson, Priscilla R.
Corrales, Candi
Pinn, Travis
Esplain, Jamie
Begay, R. Cruz
author_facet Hardy, Lisa J.
Shaw, Kevin
Hughes, Amy
Hulen, Elizabeth
Sanderson, Priscilla R.
Corrales, Candi
Pinn, Travis
Esplain, Jamie
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description In 2020, global injustice has taken center stage during the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement and other social movements. Activists are calling attention to longstanding disparities in health outcomes and an urgent need for justice. Given the global socio-political moment, how can health researchers draw on current critical theory and social movements to create structures for equitable outcomes in health research and practice? Here, we demonstrate principles for effective health research and social justice work that builds on community-engaged approaches by weaving critical Indigenous approaches into structural project designs. Our project, “Health Resilience among American Indians in Arizona”, brought new and seasoned researchers together to collect and analyze data on the knowledge of healthcare providers concerning American Indian health and well-being. Four years after the conclusion of the project, the team developed and created a post-project self-assessment to investigate lasting impacts of project participation. In this communication, we discuss the principles of defining and measuring the capacity to build together. This work responds to the call from Indigenous scholars and community leaders to build an internal narrative of change. While we will not present the full instrument, we will discuss building a strong foundation using the principles of engagement for planning and implementing justice and change.
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spelling pubmed-74001172020-08-23 Building a Narrative of Equity: Weaving Indigenous Approaches into Community-Engaged Research Hardy, Lisa J. Shaw, Kevin Hughes, Amy Hulen, Elizabeth Sanderson, Priscilla R. Corrales, Candi Pinn, Travis Esplain, Jamie Begay, R. Cruz Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In 2020, global injustice has taken center stage during the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement and other social movements. Activists are calling attention to longstanding disparities in health outcomes and an urgent need for justice. Given the global socio-political moment, how can health researchers draw on current critical theory and social movements to create structures for equitable outcomes in health research and practice? Here, we demonstrate principles for effective health research and social justice work that builds on community-engaged approaches by weaving critical Indigenous approaches into structural project designs. Our project, “Health Resilience among American Indians in Arizona”, brought new and seasoned researchers together to collect and analyze data on the knowledge of healthcare providers concerning American Indian health and well-being. Four years after the conclusion of the project, the team developed and created a post-project self-assessment to investigate lasting impacts of project participation. In this communication, we discuss the principles of defining and measuring the capacity to build together. This work responds to the call from Indigenous scholars and community leaders to build an internal narrative of change. While we will not present the full instrument, we will discuss building a strong foundation using the principles of engagement for planning and implementing justice and change. MDPI 2020-07-16 2020-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7400117/ /pubmed/32708798 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145148 Text en © 2020 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/).
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