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Describe how community organizations can promote improved health outcomes

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Describe how community organizations can promote improved health outcomes

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Describe the roles of family physicians in community health engagement 

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Describe the roles of family physicians in community health engagement 

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History of how Family Medicine has engaged communities 

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History of how Family Medicine has engaged communities 

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Examination of Power (of physician, handed over by community) 

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Examination of Power (of physician, handed over by community) 

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Identify community characteristics that impact health outcomes (defining with community partners)

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Identify community characteristics that impact health outcomes (defining with community partners)

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Physician role – obligation, ultimately addressing health equity makes your work as primary care physician better

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Physician role – obligation, ultimately addressing health equity makes your work as primary care physician better

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A co-benefit of community engagement is it may help your burn out too

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Provide models – case studies – best practices. 

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Provide models – case studies – best practices. 

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Describe the processes of conducting a community strength and needs assessment  

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Describe the processes of conducting a community strength and needs assessment  

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List examples of common types of community resources and broadly available methods of access for patients 

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List examples of common types of community resources and broadly available methods of access for patients 

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Identify techniques to empower communities to improve health and well-being 

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Identify techniques to empower communities to improve health and well-being 

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Examine key principles of community engagement and their impact on health promotion efforts 

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Examine key principles of community engagement and their impact on health promotion efforts 

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Identify how to prioritize health problems and strengths in a community, addressing health outcomes as well as health determinants 

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Identify how to prioritize health problems and strengths in a community, addressing health outcomes as well as health determinants 

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Physician-Citizens—Public Roles and Professional Obligations | Medical Education and Training | JAMA | JAMA Network 

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Physician-Citizens—Public Roles and Professional Obligations | Medical Education and Training | JAMA | JAMA Network 

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Although leaders and other commentators have called for the medical
profession’s greater engagement in improving systems of care and population
health, neither medical education nor the practice environment has fostered
such engagement. Missing have been a clear definition of physicians’…

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Community Planning for Health Assessment: Frameworks & Tools | Public Health Gateway | CDC 

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Community Planning for Health Assessment: Frameworks & Tools | Public Health Gateway | CDC 

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Community Planning for Health Assessment: Frameworks & Tools

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To explain the common elements, differences, and tools of assessment and planning frameworks.

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https://nam.edu/programs/value-science-driven-health-care/achieving-health-equity-and-systems-transformation-through-community-engagement-a-conceptual-model/

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Community engagement is not a single event or goal, but a complex process that changes across time and location. As that process takes place, it is equally complex to understand that the engagement is meaningful, impactful, and leads to promising outcomes.

The Assessing Community Engagement Conceptual Model centers community engagement and core engagement principles and identifies outcomes associated with meaningful community engagement that can form the basis for assessment or measurement efforts across various stages, models, processes, and partnerships of engagement.

Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity through Transformed Systems for Health

What are the principles, domains & indicators that guide meaningful engagement?

In the above Assessing Community Engagement Conceptual Model, four "petals" or "propellers" emanate from the center and radiate from left to right, reflecting major meaningful domains and indicators of impact. When community engagement takes place with core principles guiding its processes and activities, it propels strengthened partnerships and alliances, expanded knowledge, improved health and healthcare programs and policies, and thriving communities. Impact in these domains and their associated indicators creates motion and catalytic action that leads to the fundamental goal of health equity and well-being through transformed systems, and is influenced by several contextual factors, including the drivers of health, drivers of change in health and health care, and social, political, racial, economic, historical, and environmental context.

Click here to read the NAM Commentary to learn more about the development of the Conceptual Model, click here to watch the release webinar about the Conceptual Model, or continue reading below for a description of the details and definitions of the Model's key components.

Community Engagement

Community engagement is the linchpin or central focus of the Conceptual Model. Engagement of the community, defined as "groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity... or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people" (CDC Principles of Community Engagement), represents both the start and the hub of movement toward outcomes. It is only with community engagement that it is possible to achieve and accelerate progress toward the goal of health equity through transformed systems for health.

Click on the model to zoom in or view the core principles below.

Drivers of Health, Drivers of Change & Context

Impact in the four domains and their associated indicators creates motion and catalytic action that leads to the fundamental goal of health equity and well-being through transformed systems, and is influenced by several contextual factors, including the drivers of health, drivers of change in health and health care, and social, political, racial, economic, historical, and environmental context. The Organizing Committee believes that with meaningful community engagement it is not only possible to motivate health equity through transformed systems for health, but to also significantly transform and positively alter these contextual factors. As such, a feedback loop is created and reflected through the arrows that move from community engagement, the core principles, and the domains of meaningful engagement through to these contextual factors. Learn more about these factors below.

Acknowledgments

The Organizing Committee would like to thank Kim Irwin, Director of the Equitable Healthcare Lab and Professor of Practice at the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech, for development and design of the Assessing Community Engagement Conceptual Model; and Tomoko Ichikawa, Clinical Professor of Design at the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech, for information design support.

We want to hear from you!

Assessing community engagement involves the participation of many stakeholders. Click here to share feedback on these resources, insights on using the resources, or email leadershipconsortium@nas.edu and include "measure engagement" in the subject line to learn more about the NAM's Assessing Community Engagement project.

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Achieving Health Equity and Systems Transformation Through Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model - National Academy of Medicine

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Community engagement is not a single event or goal, but a complex process that changes across time and location. As that process takes place, it is equally complex to understand that the engagement is meaningful, impactful, and leads to promising outcomes.

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https://www.pcori.org/engagement-research/engagement-resources/foundational-expectations

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Foundational Expectations for Partnerships in Research | PCORI

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Foundational Expectations for Partnerships in Research

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Describe concrete strategies for how to engage with communities in identifying their health needs.

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Describe concrete strategies for how to engage with communities in identifying their health needs.

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The Steps Model: A Practical Tool for Engaging Communities to Improve Health Outcomes

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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.

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Has concrete actions of local health depts to support community power building

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Shifting and Sharing Power: Public Health’s Charge in Building Community Power

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Article published in NACCHO Exchange, the quarterly publication by the National Association of County & City Health Officials, that describes frameworks to explore the concepts of power and community power building as well as ways that health departments can use these concepts as part of a strategy to advance health equity.