Leveraging an implementation science partnership network to understand how Federally Qualified Health Centers operationalize and address health equity.
Transl Behav Med
; 14(1): 23-33, 2024 01 11.
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| ID: mdl-37542519
Health equity-focused implementation research requires using definitions and approaches that are relevant and meaningful to implementation partners. Toward this goal, our research team asked leadership and staff at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to share how they defined and addressed health equity at their practice settings. FQHC participants defined health equity as the essential mission of FQHCs as safety net organizations delivering care to medically underserved populations. In addition, key informants identified barriers (e.g. financing models) and facilitators (e.g. interpreter services) to advancing health equity at FQHCs. We presented these findings to a larger group of FQHC stakeholders who recommended that future implementation research and practice consider how FQHCs are challenged to address the root causes of healthcare inequities with limited resources. They also highlighted the importance of meaningful collaboration among researchers, FQHCs, and communities for data collection, data interpretation, data use, and data ownership to advance health equity. Conducting research to understand the perspectives and experiences of FQHC partners can provide clear, context-specific direction for actions to improve health equity and can inform future approaches to health equity-focused implementation research that ismeaningful to FQHC partners and the communities they serve.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
11_ODS3_cobertura_universal
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1_ASSA2030
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2_ODS3
Problema de salud:
11_delivery_arrangements
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1_desigualdade_iniquidade
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2_cobertura_universal
Asunto principal:
Equidad en Salud
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
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Implementation_research
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Transl Behav Med
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos