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Elizabeth Ablah1, Nadine Long1, Kara Hollins1
1Elizabeth Ablah is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City. Nadine Long is with Sauerwein-Long Consulting, LLC, Wichita, KS. Kara Hollins is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Callie Miller is with Housing Opportunities, Inc, Great Bend, KS. Charell Owings is with United Way of Central Kansas, Great Bend, KS. Kimberly Weaver is with We Are Wyandotte, Community Health Council of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, KS. Jody Love is with the Healthy Bourbon County Action Team, Fort Scott, KS. Clarissa Carrillo Martinez is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City. Tatiana K. Darby is with Openfields, Kansas City, MO. Ton Miras Neira is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Angela Scott is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Christina M. Pacheco is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City. Sarah Finocchario-Kessler is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS.
Abstract:
Hygiene poverty is a term describing the inability to afford essential hygiene products such as laundry detergent, toothpaste, menstrual products, or diapers, which profoundly affects dignity. Few community-level strategies have been developed to improve access to hygiene or "dignity" products. This case study from Kansas highlights the process and outcomes of a successful community-driven intervention that originated in one county and was adopted by 10 other Kansas counties. (Am J Public Health. 2026;116(5):615-618. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308410).
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