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Community Organizations, Local Health Equity Action Teams, and a Learning Collaborative to Address COVID-19
Edward F Ellerbeck1, Vicki L Collie-Akers1, Elizabeth Ablah1
1Edward F. Ellerbeck, Vicki L. Collie-Akers, Sarah Landry, Sara Obermeier, Mariana Ramirez, Daniel L. Kurz, and Stacy McCrea-Robertson are with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Elizabeth Ablah and Allison Honn are with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Wichita. Yvonnes Chen is with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Ian R. Knight is a community member, Phoenix, AZ. Crystal Y. Lumpkins is with the Department of Communication, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Mary Ricketts is with Turning Point Training and Consultation, Overland Park, KS. Tony Carter is with Salem Missionary Baptist Church, Kansas City, KS. Ullyses Wright is a community member, Overland Park, KS. Christal Watson is with Kansas City Kansas Schools Foundation, Kansas City, KS. Sarah Finocchario-Kessler, Joseph LeMaster, Erin Corriveau, and K. Allen Greiner are with the Department of Family Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Broderick Crawford was with the NBC Community Development Corporation, Kansas City, KS. Jianghua He is with the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.
Abstract:
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. (Am J Public Health. 2024;114(11):1202-1206. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307771).
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