Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Interventions to Promote Health Equity and Well-Being in Minoritized Youth

Dear Colleagues,

The definition of minoritized youth varies by country and region and can include many groups of younger people. The term ‘minoritized youth’ often encompasses individuals with disabilities; individuals from particular racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious groups; individuals who are newly immigrated, refugees and those seeking asylum, do not speak the dominant language or dialect; individuals from different political or regious groups; individuals who identify as women, nonbinary, or transgender; individuals from the LGBTQ+ community; individuals with lower socioeconomic status, or lower levels of access to resources such as education, health insurance, or medical care. Interventions to promote health equity and wellbeing in these youth should target system-, community-, family-, and individual-level factors. This Special Issue aims to publish articles that discuss the full continuum of possible interventions for minoritized youth, from considerations and processes for developing interventions; consideration, processes, and strategies for implementing interventions, to methods, procedures, and adaptations for assessing intervention feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness. We invite researchers to submit manuscripts that address any of the stages of intervention development, implementation, or evaluation for any group of minoritized youth.

Dr. Heather Jill Risser
Guest Editor

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