Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity through Transformed Systems for Health
Sergio Aguilar‐Gaxiola, Syed Masud Ahmed, Ayodola Anise, Atum Azzahir, Kellan E Baker, Anna Cupito, Milton Eder, Tekisha Dwan Everette, Health Equity Solutions, Kim Erwin, Maret Felzien, Elmer Freeman, David Gibbs, Community Initiatives, Ella Greene-Moton, Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, National Partnership for Women & Families, Ann Hwang, Felica Jones, Healthy African American Families II, Grant Jones, Marita Jones, Healthy Native Communities Partnership, Dmitry Khodyakov, J. Lloyd Michener, Bobby Milstein, ReThink Health, Debra S Oto-Kent, Michael Orban, Burt Pusch, Commonwealth Care Alliance, Mona Shah, Monique Shaw, Julie Tarrant, Nina Wallerstein, John M. Westfall, Asia Williams, Richard Zaldivar, The Wall Las Memorias Project
Abstract
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”—Goethe Introduction People and the communities they are a part of—defined as “groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity . . . or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people”—are deeply impacted by the systems that […]