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Narcanazo: Community Activation of Antiracist Epidemiology
Tamara Oyola-Santiago1, Camila Gelpí-Acosta1, Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez1
1Tamara Oyola-Santiago is with Bronx Móvil, Bronx, NY, and Student Health Services, The New School, New York, NY. Camila Gelpí-Acosta is with LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, New York, NY, and Bronx Móvil, Bronx, NY. Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez is with the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, and the Postdoctoral Program, New York University, New York, NY. Manuel Cano is with the School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Phoenix.
Abstract:
The Latinx (Hispanic) social construct obscures differences in the overdose risk levels of groups within this category. When national data are disaggregated, stateside Puerto Rican mortality increases exponentially, so much that this community has the highest rates of overdose deaths across years. Developed by Bronx-based Puerto Ricans, Narcanazo is an empowered upstander campaign that uses local overdose data to mobilize community members as trained naloxone dispensers. This health promotion campaign was grounded in antiracist epidemiological analysis. (Am J Public Health. 2024;114(S6):S463-S466. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307605) [Formula: see text].
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