Community Organizations, Local Health Equity Action Teams, and a Learning Collaborative to Address COVID-19 Disparities in Urban and Rural Communities
Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) Kansas worked with 10 Kansas counties from November 2020 through June 2022 to form local health equity action teams (LHEATs), develop COVID-19 testing strategies, foster communication about COVID-19, and share best practices through a learning collaborative. Participating counties documented 693 distinct COVID-19 testing and 178 communication activities. Although the intervention was not associated with changes in the proportion of positive COVID-19 tests, LHEATs in the learning collaborative implemented new testing strategies and responded to emerging COVID-19 challenges. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2024;114(11):1202-1206. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307771).
Authors
- Vicki L Collie-Akers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7873-5512)
- Mariana Ramírez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6744-0957)
- Christal Watson
- Stacy McCrea-Robertson
- Ullyses Wright
- Elizabeth Ablah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4550-2162)
- Allison Honn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6764-9133)
- Joseph W. LeMaster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3026-830X)
- Broderick Crawford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5500-0188)
- Daniel Kurz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4540-8275)
- Edward F. Ellerbeck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7774-2729)
- Crystal Y. Lumpkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0963-0706)
- Yvonnes Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2569-7719)
- Sarah Finocchario‐Kessler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7604-5606)
- Sarah Landry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0003-8936)
- Mary Ricketts
- K. Allen Greiner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9883-4203)
- Tony Carter
- Sara M. Obermeier
- Jianghua He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9718-1009)
- Ian R. Knight
- Erin Corriveau
Institutions
- University of Kansas Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Public Health
- Published
- 2024-08-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2024.307771
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.70