Impact of health system engagement on the health and well-being of people who use drugs: a realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although community-level benefits of health system engagement (i.e., health service planning, delivery, and quality improvement, engaged research and evaluation, and collaborative advocacy) are well established, individual-level impacts on the health and well-being of community members are less explored, in particular for people who use or have used illegal drugs (PWUD). Capacity building, personal growth, reduced/safer drug use, and other positive outcomes may or may not be experienced by PWUD involved in engagement activities. Indeed, PWUD may also encounter stigma and harm when interacting with healthcare and academic structures. Our objective is to uncover why, how, and under what circumstances positive and negative health outcomes occur during health system engageme

SUBMITTER: Salvalaggio G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9008896 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature