Lay Health Promoters Empower Neighbourhoods : Results From a Community-Based Research Programme in Southern Sweden
(2022) In Frontiers in Public Health 10.- Abstract
- This article focuses on the role of lay health promoters in the Lindängen initiative, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) programme for health promotion that started 2016 in a low-income neighbourhood in the outskirts of Malmö, southern Sweden. The programme aimed to support equitable health and develop an innovative model for community health promotion. The purpose of this article is to describe the role of the lay health promoters in the initiative and discuss the challenges of their position mediating between residents of the neighbourhood and the established institutions, using interviews, meeting notes and focus groups sessions with the health promoters and local stakeholders. Lay health promoters' role and function... (More)
- This article focuses on the role of lay health promoters in the Lindängen initiative, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) programme for health promotion that started 2016 in a low-income neighbourhood in the outskirts of Malmö, southern Sweden. The programme aimed to support equitable health and develop an innovative model for community health promotion. The purpose of this article is to describe the role of the lay health promoters in the initiative and discuss the challenges of their position mediating between residents of the neighbourhood and the established institutions, using interviews, meeting notes and focus groups sessions with the health promoters and local stakeholders. Lay health promoters' role and function developed in a collaborative process of networking with local stakeholders and citizens in local meeting places. Their work was based on their credibility in their role, in combination with the use of a CBPR model that was open to innovation, with a strong focus on actively engaging members of the community. This allowed the lay health promoters to take political and social stances towards various issues, and to start to concretely address the social determinants of health in the community, as well as express recommendations to policymakers. Based on these experiences, the lay health promoters gained clearer insights into the institutional and structural conditions that impact their community. The position they had in the process of the programme resulted in empowerment and a new local association for health promotion; LindängenKraft (LindängenPower) driven by the health promotors and community members. (Less)
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- Rämgård, Margareta and Avery, Helen LU
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- publishing date
- 2022-04-26
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- empowerment, community-based participatory research (CBPR), health equity, health promoters, community health work
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- Frontiers in Public Health
- volume
- 10
- article number
- 703423
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- Frontiers Media S. A.
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- scopus:85130769118
- pmid:35602126
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- 2296-2565
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- 10.3389/fpubh.2022.703423
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- English
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- yes
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- ETHICS STATEMENT The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by Regionala etikprövningsnämnden i Lund (Regional Ethics Committee of Lund). The participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study. Written informed consent was obtained from the individual(s) for the publication of any potentially identifiable images or data included in this article. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the lay health promoters from the community for giving their time to this work. FUNDING The current work was part of a larger project funded by the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova with the sum of SEK 8,6m (DNR 2016–00421, 2017–01272), and the Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University.
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title = {{Lay Health Promoters Empower Neighbourhoods : Results From a Community-Based Research Programme in Southern Sweden}},
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