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. 2023 Apr 4;11(7):1034. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11071034

Table 1.

Country, objective, promotors, and other stakeholders involved in the 31 co-created public health actions based on equity reviewed.

Promotors Other Stakeholders
Reference Country Objective Academic lInstitutions Healthcare Institutions Governmental
Institutions
Private Orgs. Public Institutions Social Orgs. Private Orgs.
Rains & Ray, 1995 [31] United States To work with the community to address higher-than-average national heart disease and cancer-related mortality in a rural Indiana town.
Giachello, 2003 [32] United States To reduce diabetes mortality, hospitalizations, complications, and related disabilities among African Americans and Latinos in Chicago’s Southeast Side communities.
Sullivan, 2005 [33] United States To improve understanding of the cultural context of domestic violence in King County, Washington; examine access to and satisfaction with the range of services for women who experience domestic violence; and identify women’s ideas for addressing domestic violence in their communities.
Ferré, 2010 [34] United States To improve the health outcomes in African American communities in LA County by enhancing the quality of care and by advancing social progress through education, training, and collaborative partnering
Schulz, 2011 [35] United States To develop a multilevel intervention to address inequalities in cardiovascular disease in Detroit, Michigan
Kreuter, 2012 [36] United States To engage community organizations in an urban Atlanta neighbourhood to identify priority health and social or environmental problems and undertake actions to mitigate those problems.
Montgomer, 2012 [37] United States To develop a curriculum that trains Native youth leaders to plan, write, and design original comic books to enhance healthy decision making.
Abara, 2014 [38] United States To address community-identified health and environmental concerns in the aftermath of a chemical disaster.
Noone, 2016 [39] United States To engage Latino youth to address health disparities in unintended teen pregnancy rates.
Andress & Hallie, 2017 [40] United States To construct a shared narrative about the food environment with older adults, specifically regarding their access to food.
Cuervo, 2017 [41] United States To improve the capacity to provide ongoing disaster preparedness and occupational safety and health training for Latino immigrant labourers.
Peréa, 2019 [42] United States To engage urban youth in the development of local health promotion and advocacy efforts to increase physical activity.
Newman, 2020 [43] United States To use community engaged research and citizen science methods to derive data-driven community master plans to reduce toxic exposure and enhance resilience.
Frerichs, 2020 [44] United States To engage adolescent youth in co-building an agent-based model of physical activity.
Symanski, 2020 [45] United States To improve air quality and environmental health in neighbourhoods located adjacent to metal recycling facilities in Houston.
Harper, 2012 [46] Canada To develop a multimedia participatory, community-run methodological strategy to gather locally appropriate and meaningful data to explore climate–health relationships.
Thompson, 2018 [47] Canada To assess the general viability of the hoop house gardening initiative in the community and consider what role it might play in improving local food security.
Ríos-Cortázar, 2014 [48] Mexico To promote a healthy diets, physical activity, and obesity preventive measures in an elementary school in Mexico City.
Brännström L, 2020 [49] Sweden To gain increased knowledge about gendered violence against girls and young women in rural Sweden.
Ali, 2019 [50] United Kingdom To develop and produce culturally appropriate information resources that reflected the needs of the community.
Prevo, 2020 [51] Netherlands To enhance community participation and improve the general wellbeing and positive health of low socioeconomic status families
Miranda, 2019 [52] Spain To empower the Roma community through sociopolitical awareness, promote alliances between Roma and community resources/institutions, and build a common agenda for promoting Roma health justice.
Miranda, 2022 [53] Spain To build capacity for health advocacy among a group of Roma neighbours living in contexts of risk of social exclusion.
Cox, 2014 [54] Australia To promote positive social and emotional wellbeing to increase resilience and reduce the high reported rates of psychological distress and suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Gilbert, 2019 [55] Australia To improve health literacy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in preconception health, in terms of raising awareness of the determinants of health and encouraging collective actions to modify behavioural determinants.
Carr, 2021 [56] Australia To co-design a meaningful physical activity and lifestyle program tailored to the priorities of Aboriginal families with Machado-Joseph Disease in the Top End of Australia.
Gerritsen, 2019 [57] New Zealand To identify systemic barriers to children meeting fruit and vegetable (FV) guidelines and generate sustainable actions within a local community to improve children’s FV intake.
Chukwudozie, 2015 [58] Nigeria,
D.R. Congo,
Sierra Leone
To enhance the understanding of kinship care arrangements, positive and negative experiences of kinship care, and influencing factors from different perspectives.
Chimberengwa & Naidoo, 2019 [59] Zimbabwe To improve the community’s knowledge about hypertension by positively influencing beliefs and behaviours emphasizing primary prevention.
Oladeinde, 2020 [60] South Africa To engage communities to nominate health concerns and generate new knowledge for action in the area of alcohol and drug use in marginalised communities in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Kabukye, 2021 [61] Uganda To understand the cancer awareness situation in Uganda and develop, implement, and evaluate cancer awareness messages.