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Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations. Community Health Workers, inclusive of Community Health Representatives (CHW/Rs) have entered the spotlight as essential to COVID-19 prevention and c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36817902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1072808 |
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author | Jiménez, Dulce J. Gomez, Omar Meraz, Ruby Pollitt, Amanda M. Evans, Linnea Lee, Naomi Ignacio, Matt Garcia, Katherine Redondo, Richard Redondo, Floribella Williamson, Heather J. Oesterle, Sabrina Parthasarathy, Sairam Sabo, Samantha |
author_facet | Jiménez, Dulce J. Gomez, Omar Meraz, Ruby Pollitt, Amanda M. Evans, Linnea Lee, Naomi Ignacio, Matt Garcia, Katherine Redondo, Richard Redondo, Floribella Williamson, Heather J. Oesterle, Sabrina Parthasarathy, Sairam Sabo, Samantha |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations. Community Health Workers, inclusive of Community Health Representatives (CHW/Rs) have entered the spotlight as essential to COVID-19 prevention and control. To learn about community experiences and perspectives related to COVID-19 and inform CHW/R workforce capacity building efforts, a series of focus groups were conducted with CHW/Rs throughout Arizona at two time points in 2021. Throughout the data collection and analysis process, researchers and community partners engaged in ongoing and open dialogue about what CHW/Rs on the ground were reporting as priority community concerns, needs, and challenges. Thus, CHW/Rs informed the development of culturally and linguistically relevant health education messages, materials, and training for CHW/Rs. In this community case study, we detail the efforts of partnership between a statewide CHW professional association and an academic research team that facilitated rapid decision-making and knowledge sharing to create community-grounded tools and resources supportive of CHW/R workforce capacity building in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-99325282023-02-17 Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers Jiménez, Dulce J. Gomez, Omar Meraz, Ruby Pollitt, Amanda M. Evans, Linnea Lee, Naomi Ignacio, Matt Garcia, Katherine Redondo, Richard Redondo, Floribella Williamson, Heather J. Oesterle, Sabrina Parthasarathy, Sairam Sabo, Samantha Front Public Health Public Health The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations. Community Health Workers, inclusive of Community Health Representatives (CHW/Rs) have entered the spotlight as essential to COVID-19 prevention and control. To learn about community experiences and perspectives related to COVID-19 and inform CHW/R workforce capacity building efforts, a series of focus groups were conducted with CHW/Rs throughout Arizona at two time points in 2021. Throughout the data collection and analysis process, researchers and community partners engaged in ongoing and open dialogue about what CHW/Rs on the ground were reporting as priority community concerns, needs, and challenges. Thus, CHW/Rs informed the development of culturally and linguistically relevant health education messages, materials, and training for CHW/Rs. In this community case study, we detail the efforts of partnership between a statewide CHW professional association and an academic research team that facilitated rapid decision-making and knowledge sharing to create community-grounded tools and resources supportive of CHW/R workforce capacity building in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9932528/ /pubmed/36817902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1072808 Text en Copyright © 2023 Jiménez, Gomez, Meraz, Pollitt, Evans, Lee, Ignacio, Garcia, Redondo, Redondo, Williamson, Oesterle, Parthasarathy and Sabo. 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 Jiménez, Dulce J. Gomez, Omar Meraz, Ruby Pollitt, Amanda M. Evans, Linnea Lee, Naomi Ignacio, Matt Garcia, Katherine Redondo, Richard Redondo, Floribella Williamson, Heather J. Oesterle, Sabrina Parthasarathy, Sairam Sabo, Samantha Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers |
title | Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers |
title_full | Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers |
title_fullStr | Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers |
title_full_unstemmed | Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers |
title_short | Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers |
title_sort | community engagement alliance (ceal) against covid-19 disparities: academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among arizona community health workers |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36817902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1072808 |
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