Heard and valued: the development of a model to meaningfully engage marginalized populations in health services planning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recently, patient engagement has been identified as a promising strategy for supporting healthcare planning. However, the context and structure of universalistic, "one-size-fits-all" approaches often used for patient engagement may not enable diverse patients to participate in decision-making about programs intended to meet their needs. Specifically, standard patient engagement approaches are gender-blind and might not facilitate the engagement of those marginalized by, for example, substance use, low income, experiences of violence, homelessness, and/or mental health challenges-highly gendered health and social experiences. The project's purpose was to develop a heuristic model to assist planners to engage patients who are not traditionally included in healthcare planni

SUBMITTER: Snow ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5856315 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature