[HTML][HTML] Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities

AM Subica, BG Link - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Health disparities disproportionately affect minority cultural groups (eg, Indigenous,
immigrant, refugee) worldwide; enduring across time, disease states, and risk factors despite …

Engaging coalitions in community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions: a mixed methods assessment

AR Korn, E Hennessy, A Tovar, C Finn… - Childhood …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Background: Childhood obesity prevention interventions have engaged coalitions in study
design, implementation, and/or evaluation to improve research outcomes; yet, no systematic …

[HTML][HTML] Community organising frameworks, models, and processes to improve health: A systematic scoping review

S Kadariya, L Ball, D Chua, H Ryding, J Hobby… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Community involvement engages, empowers, and mobilises people to achieve their shared
goals by addressing structural inequalities in the social and built environment. Through this …

Community organizing: Studying the development and exercise of grassroots power

BD Christens, J Gupta, PW Speer - Journal of Community …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is now wide recognition that grassroots community organizing is a uniquely necessary
approach for contending with the persistent and escalating socioeconomic inequities that …

Narrative change for health equity in grassroots community organizing: A study of initiatives in Michigan and Ohio

KA Haapanen, BD Christens, PW Speer… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To achieve health equity, there is a need to act on the social determinants of health. This
reality is now understood more widely, and in greater detail, than ever. Amid this movement …

Obesity and associated health disparities among understudied multiracial, Pacific Islander, and American Indian adults

AM Subica, N Agarwal, JG Sullivan, BG Link - Obesity, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examined the state of obesity, diabetes, and associated health
disparities among understudied multiracial, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander …

[HTML][HTML] Using photovoice to generate policy recommendations to improve the alcohol urban environment: A participatory action research project

MS Vázquez, A Pastor, IM de la Fuente, PC Espejo… - Health & Place, 2023 - Elsevier
The place where we live, work and play may influence our alcohol drinking behaviours. This
study aimed to present local policy recommendations on urban determinants for alcohol …

[HTML][HTML] # Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19

H Seow, K McMillan, M Civak, D Bainbridge… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background To combat social distancing and stay-at-home restrictions due to COVID-19,
Canadian communities began a Facebook social media movement,# Caremongering, to …

[HTML][HTML] Colorectal cancer screening in black men: recommendations for best practices

MR Kwaan, R Jones-Webb - American journal of preventive medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Screening for colorectal cancer has been demonstrated to reduce colorectal cancer
mortality. Blacks have a higher mortality from this malignancy, particularly men, yet …

[PDF][PDF] Developing community power for health equity: a landscape analysis of current research and theory

PW Speer, J Gupta, K Haapanen, B Balmer… - Nashville: Vanderbilt …, 2020 - lead-local.org
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported program that amplifies the centrality of
community power in the field of health equity by convening practitioner and research …