Community-Engaged Interventions for Health Equity: Implementation and Impact
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Organizations, Systems, and Providers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2026 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health equity; community engagement; population health; mortality; morbidity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Achieving health equity is integral to the promise of medicine to the public, a pillar in establishing its reputation as an institution for health and health promotion. It is achieved through community and population health, two similar yet distinct approaches to promoting the public’s health through the use of upstream practice and prevention strategies. The imperative for healthcare organizations to demonstrate how they provide benefits and deliver health to the patients and communities they serve has never been greater. In this special issue, we invite scientists, clinicians, and public health experts to submit their work on promoting and achieving health equity through population health strategies that embody community-engaged interventions. Promoting such work will help ensure it is viewed within the same spectrum as the sophisticated sciences that lead to remarkable medical breakthroughs in the clinic, thereby reaffirming that the breakthroughs in the community hold equal value.
Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health equity
- population health
- community health
- community engagement
- healthcare
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