Graphic-style stories to engage limited resource communities and promote health: methods for iterative co-design with community representatives.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People with lower health literacy and those living in limited-resource communities often experience poorer health outcomes. Leveraging stories for health promotion can be particularly beneficial as stories are more engaging and memorable than other outreach materials. Co-designing health-promotion stories with representatives from target communities ensures their cultural relevance.

Methods

We Engage 4 Health (WE4H), a 20 + member community-academic partnership, developed an iterative co-design and testing process for creating engaging and culturally tailored health promotion stories that initiate meaningful discussions about diverse and often complex health topics. Using a graphic-style format, the stories were designed to be read aloud as the story characters

SUBMITTER: Gertz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12450922 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature