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  1. Article ; Online: Engaging Youth and Young Adults in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response via the "It's Our Turn" Crowdsourcing Contest.

    Evans, Linnea A / Gomez, Omar / Jiménez, Dulce J / Williamson, Heather J / Carver, Ann Turnlund / Parthasarathy, Sairam / Sabo, Samantha

    International journal of environmental research and public health

    2023  Volume 20, Issue 6

    Abstract: As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continued to progress into 2021, appeals were made to take a stronger focus on the perceptions and practices of youth and young adults (YYAs) regarding COVID-19 mitigation, as well as the impact of ... ...

    Abstract As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continued to progress into 2021, appeals were made to take a stronger focus on the perceptions and practices of youth and young adults (YYAs) regarding COVID-19 mitigation, as well as the impact of mitigation strategies on the overall wellbeing of YYAs. In this paper, we describe our efforts to increase YYA engagement in Arizona's COVID-19 response by pairing embedded values from youth participatory action research (YPAR) with a crowdsourcing challenge contest design. The research protocol and implementation are described, followed by a thematic analysis of YYA-led messaging portrayed in 23 contest submissions and reflections formed by 223 community voters after viewing contest submissions. The authors conclude that a YYA-led crowdsourcing contest presented an opportunity to (a.) investigate the perceptions and behaviors of YYAs and their networks regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation efforts
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Adolescent ; Young Adult ; Pandemics ; Crowdsourcing ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Health Services Research/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-14
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2175195-X
    ISSN 1660-4601 ; 1661-7827
    ISSN (online) 1660-4601
    ISSN 1661-7827
    DOI 10.3390/ijerph20065112
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  2. Article ; Online: A multisectoral approach to advance health equity in rural northern Arizona: county-level leaders' perspectives on health equity.

    Jiménez, Dulce J / Sabo, Samantha / Remiker, Mark / Smith, Melinda / Samarron Longorio, Alexandra E / Williamson, Heather J / Chief, Carmenlita / Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I

    BMC public health

    2022  Volume 22, Issue 1, Page(s) 960

    Abstract: Background: Multisectoral and public-private partnerships are critical in building the necessary infrastructure, policy, and political will to ameliorate health inequity. A focus on health equity by researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers ... ...

    Abstract Background: Multisectoral and public-private partnerships are critical in building the necessary infrastructure, policy, and political will to ameliorate health inequity. A focus on health equity by researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers prioritizes action to address the systematic, avoidable, and unjust differences in health status across population groups sustained over time and generations that are beyond the control of individuals. Health equity requires a collective process in shaping the health and wellbeing of the communities in which we live, learn, work, play, and grow. This paper explores multisectoral leaders' understanding of the social, environmental, and economic conditions that produce and sustain health inequity in northern Arizona, a geographically expansive, largely rural, and culturally diverse region.
    Methods: Data are drawn from the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative's Regional Health Equity Survey (RHES). The RHES is a community-engaged, cross-sectional online survey comprised of 31 close-ended and 17 open-ended questions. Created to assess cross-sectoral regional and collective capacity to address health inequity and inform multisectoral action for improving community health, the RHES targeted leaders representing five rural northern Arizona counties and 13 sectors. Select open-ended questions were analyzed using an a priori coding scheme and emergent coding with thematic analysis.
    Results: Although leaders were provided the definition and asked to describe the root causes of inequities, the majority of leaders described social determinants of health (SDoH). When leaders described root causes of health inequity, they articulated systemic factors affecting their communities, describing discrimination and unequal allocation of power and resources. Most leaders described the SDoH by discussing compounding factors of poverty, transportation, housing, and rurality among others, that together exacerbate inequity. Leaders also identified specific strategies to address SDoH and advance health equity in their communities, ranging from providing direct services to activating partnerships across organizations and sectors in advocacy for policy change.
    Conclusion: Our findings indicate that community leaders in the northern Arizona region acknowledge the importance of multisectoral collaborations in improving health equity for the populations that they serve. However, a common understanding of health equity remains to be widely established, which is essential for conducting effective multisectoral work to advance health equity.
    MeSH term(s) Arizona ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Health Equity ; Humans ; Public Health ; Social Determinants of Health
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-13
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041338-5
    ISSN 1471-2458 ; 1471-2458
    ISSN (online) 1471-2458
    ISSN 1471-2458
    DOI 10.1186/s12889-022-13279-6
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  3. Article ; Online: 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

    Frontiers in public health

    2023  Volume 11, Page(s) 1072808

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; COVID-19 ; Community Health Workers ; Capacity Building ; Arizona ; Pandemics ; Workforce
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-02
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2711781-9
    ISSN 2296-2565 ; 2296-2565
    ISSN (online) 2296-2565
    ISSN 2296-2565
    DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1072808
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  4. Article ; Online: Community Health Representatives as Trusted Sources for Increasing Representation of American Indian Communities in Clinical Research.

    Sabo, Samantha / Lee, Naomi / Sears, Grant / Jiménez, Dulce J / Tutt, Marissa / Santos, Jeffersson / Gomez, Omar / Teufel-Shone, Nicolette / Bennet, Marianne / Nashio, J T Neva / Flores, Fernando / Baldwin, Julie

    International journal of environmental research and public health

    2023  Volume 20, Issue 5

    Abstract: Indigenous and American Indian Alaskan Native (AI/AN) community members are systematically underrepresented in clinical trial research. This paper focuses on exploratory steps to partner with Native Nations of Arizona to engage Community Health ... ...

    Abstract Indigenous and American Indian Alaskan Native (AI/AN) community members are systematically underrepresented in clinical trial research. This paper focuses on exploratory steps to partner with Native Nations of Arizona to engage Community Health Representatives (CHR) as a trusted source for building COVID-19 clinical trial research, including vaccine trials awareness. CHRs are frontline public health workers who apply a unique understanding of the experience, language, and culture of the population served. This workforce has entered the spotlight as essential to the prevention and control of COVID-19.
    Methods: Three Tribal CHR programs were engaged to develop and refine culturally centered educational materials and a pre-post survey using a consensus-based decision-making approach. CHRs used these materials in brief education sessions during regular client home visits and community events.
    Results: At 30 days post CHR intervention, participants (N = 165) demonstrated significantly increased awareness about and ability to enroll in COVID-19 treatment and vaccine trials. Participants also described a significant increase in trust in researchers, decreased perceived barriers related to cost for participation in a clinical trial, and improved belief that participation in a COVID-19 clinical trial for treatment was considered a benefit to American Indian and Alaskan Native people.
    Conclusion: CHRs as trusted sources of information, coupled with culturally centered education materials designed by CHRs for CHR clients, demonstrated a promising approach to improved awareness of clinical trial research generally and COVID-19 trials specifically among Indigenous and American Indian community members of Arizona.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; American Indian or Alaska Native ; COVID-19 ; COVID-19 Drug Treatment ; Indians, North American ; Public Health ; Trust ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Community Health Workers
    Chemical Substances COVID-19 Vaccines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-01
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2175195-X
    ISSN 1660-4601 ; 1661-7827
    ISSN (online) 1660-4601
    ISSN 1661-7827
    DOI 10.3390/ijerph20054391
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  5. Article ; Online: Addressing maternal and child health equity through a community health worker home visiting intervention to reduce low birth weight: retrospective quasi-experimental study of the Arizona Health Start Programme.

    Sabo, Samantha / Wightman, Patrick / McCue, Kelly / Butler, Matthew / Pilling, Vern / Jimenez, Dulce J / Celaya, Martín / Rumann, Sara

    BMJ open

    2021  Volume 11, Issue 6, Page(s) e045014

    Abstract: Objective: To test if participation in the Health Start Programme, an Arizona statewide Community Health Worker (CHW) maternal and child health (MCH) home visiting programme, reduced rates of low birth weight (LBW), very LBW (VLBW), extremely LBW (ELBW) ...

    Abstract Objective: To test if participation in the Health Start Programme, an Arizona statewide Community Health Worker (CHW) maternal and child health (MCH) home visiting programme, reduced rates of low birth weight (LBW), very LBW (VLBW), extremely LBW (ELBW) and preterm birth (PTB).
    Design: Quasi-experimental retrospective study using propensity score matching of Health Start Programme enrolment data to state birth certificate records for years 2006-2016.
    Setting: Arizona is uniquely racially and ethnically diverse with comparatively higher proportions of Latino and American Indian residents and a smaller proportion of African Americans.
    Participants: 7212 Health Start Programme mothers matched to non-participants based on demographic, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics, health conditions and previous birth experiences.
    Intervention: A statewide CHW MCH home visiting programme.
    Primary and secondary outcome measures: LBW, VLBW, ELBW and PTB.
    Results: Using Health Start Programme's administrative data and birth certificate data from 2006 to 2016, we identified 7212 Health Start Programme participants and 53 948 matches. Programme participation is associated with decreases in adverse birth outcomes for most subgroups. Health Start participation is associated with statistically significant lower rates of LBW among American Indian women (38%; average treatment-on-the-treated effect (ATT): 2.30; 95% CI -4.07 to -0.53) and mothers with a pre-existing health risk (25%; ATT: -3.06; 95% CI -5.82 to -0.30). Among Latina mothers, Health Start Programme participation is associated with statistically significant lower rates of VLBW (36%; ATT: 0.35; 95% CI -0.69 to -0.01) and ELBW (62%; ATT: 0.31; 95% CI (-0.52 to -0.10)). Finally, Health Start Programme participation is associated with a statistically significant lower rate of PTB for teen mothers (30%; ATT: 2.81; 95% CI -4.71 to -0.91). Other results were not statistically significant.
    Conclusion: A state health department-operated MCH home visiting intervention that employs CHWs as the primary interventionist may contribute to the reduction of LBW, VLBW, ELBW and PTB and could improve birth outcomes statewide, especially among women and children at increased risk for MCH inequity.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Arizona/epidemiology ; Birth Weight ; Child ; Community Health Workers ; Female ; Health Equity ; Humans ; Infant, Low Birth Weight ; Infant, Newborn ; Pregnancy ; Premature Birth/epidemiology ; Premature Birth/prevention & control ; Prenatal Care ; Retrospective Studies
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-16
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2599832-8
    ISSN 2044-6055 ; 2044-6055
    ISSN (online) 2044-6055
    ISSN 2044-6055
    DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045014
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  6. Article ; Online: Leptospira in river and soil in a highly endemic area of Ecuador.

    Miller, Erin / Barragan, Veronica / Chiriboga, Jorge / Weddell, Chad / Luna, Ligia / Jiménez, Dulce J / Aleman, John / Mihaljevic, Joseph R / Olivas, Sonora / Marks, Jane / Izurieta, Ricardo / Nieto, Nathan / Keim, Paul / Trueba, Gabriel / Caporaso, J Gregory / Pearson, Talima

    BMC microbiology

    2021  Volume 21, Issue 1, Page(s) 17

    Abstract: Background: Leptospira are shed into the environment via urine of infected animals. Rivers are thought to be an important risk factor for transmission to humans, though much is unknown about the types of environment or characteristics that favor ... ...

    Abstract Background: Leptospira are shed into the environment via urine of infected animals. Rivers are thought to be an important risk factor for transmission to humans, though much is unknown about the types of environment or characteristics that favor survival. To address this, we screened for Leptospira DNA in two rivers in rural Ecuador where Leptospirosis is endemic.
    Results: We collected 112 longitudinal samples and recorded pH, temperature, river depth, precipitation, and dissolved oxygen. We also performed a series of three experiments designed to provide insight into Leptospira presence in the soil. In the first soil experiment, we characterized prevalence and co-occurrence of Leptospira with other bacterial taxa in the soil at dispersed sites along the rivers (n = 64). In the second soil experiment, we collected 24 river samples and 48 soil samples at three points along eight transects to compare the likelihood of finding Leptospira in the river and on the shore at different distances from the river. In a third experiment, we tested whether Leptospira presence is associated with soil moisture by collecting 25 soil samples from two different sites. In our river experiment, we found pathogenic Leptospira in only 4 (3.7%) of samples. In contrast, pathogenic Leptospira species were found in 22% of shore soil at dispersed sites, 16.7% of soil samples (compared to 4.2% of river samples) in the transects, and 40% of soil samples to test for associations with soil moisture.
    Conclusions: Our data are limited to two sites in a highly endemic area, but the scarcity of Leptospira DNA in the river is not consistent with the widespread contention of the importance of river water for leptospirosis transmission. While Leptospira may be shed directly into the river, onto the shores, or washed into the river from more remote sites, massive dilution and limited persistence in rivers may reduce the environmental load and therefore, the epidemiological significance of such sources. It is also possible that transmission may occur more frequently on shores where people are liable to be barefoot. Molecular studies that further explore the role of rivers and water bodies in the epidemiology of leptospirosis are needed.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; DNA, Bacterial ; DNA, Ribosomal/genetics ; Ecuador ; Endemic Diseases ; Humans ; Leptospira/classification ; Leptospira/genetics ; Leptospira/isolation & purification ; Leptospirosis/epidemiology ; Phylogeny ; Prevalence ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics ; Rivers/microbiology ; Rural Population ; Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods ; Soil/chemistry ; Soil Microbiology
    Chemical Substances DNA, Bacterial ; DNA, Ribosomal ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S ; Soil
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 1471-2180
    ISSN (online) 1471-2180
    DOI 10.1186/s12866-020-02069-y
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