Talents, Tears, Stories of Our Identities, and Community Building

Toward Community-Based Ecosystems of Latiné Health Driven by Promotores

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ID11033987
AutoresAlana M W Lebrón (0000-0003-0964-4673, Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.), Gloria Itzel Montiel (0000-0003-2540-1487, Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.), Saraí Arpero (Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.), Josefina Jimenez (0000-0002-3444-0851, Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.), Gina Torres (0000-0002-8012-3689, Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.), Hilda Ortiz (Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.), Nancy Mejía (Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.), America Bracho (0009-0002-5242-0202, Alana M. W. LeBrón is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Gloria I. Montiel is with AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA. S. Arpero, J. Jimenez, G. Torres, H. Ortiz, N. Mejía, and A. Bracho are with Latino Health Access.)
Año2024
Volumen114
NúmeroS6
PáginasS525-S533
Fecha de publicación2024-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2024.307763
PMID39083749
OpenAlexW4401165858
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas38

This essay describes a process for integrating US Latiné communities as drivers of a grassroots vision for healthy Latiné communities and health equity planning that addresses racial injustices. Transforming structural conditions to promote Latiné community health happens alongside creating conditions for community-level self-determination to foster community-based ecosystems of health. Integrating a life course perspective, we describe a vision for community-based ecosystems of Latiné health that is rooted in forging connections and cultivating community; building community power to address structural drivers of health; leveraging the expertise and assets of promotores to reach, engage, and mobilize communities; scaling solutions through policy, system, and environment changes; and grounding research processes in community-driven priorities. Such processes must affirm the expertise of promotores and Latiné communities and recognize the interconnectedness of communities and systems (e.g., food, housing, living wages) to nurture health at local levels. Research can advance the science and evidence-based models that support community-based ecosystems of Latiné health. ( Am J Public Health. 2024;114(S6):S525–S533. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307763 ) [Formula: see text]

Community building · Community health · Community organization · Economic growth · Economics · Grassroots · Health equity · Latin Americans · Nature versus nurture · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Nursing