American Indian community engagement and the structural and social determinants of health: results from the THRIVE assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Engaging community members in the process of documenting health inequities is the first step in addressing public health challenges. This paper presents the community-driven adaptation process and results for the Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) assessment, a social justice and equity-focused screening tool, in one reservation-based American Indian community in the US.

Methods

Using principles of community-engaged research (CER) and community-based participatory research (CBPR), the authors describe the importance of co-creating data collection tools with community members to document the social and structural determinants of health. Authors describe a step-by-step approach to document inequities; this includes (1) recognizing t

SUBMITTER: Webb K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12411181 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature