Communities organizing to promote equity: engaging local communities in public health responses to health inequities exacerbated by COVID-19-protocol paper

• Main Authors: Christina M. Pacheco (Author), Kristina M. Bridges (Author), Edward F. Ellerbeck (Author), Elizabeth Ablah (Author), K. Allen Greiner (Author), Yvonnes Chen (Author), Vicki Collie-Akers (Author), Mariana Ramírez (Author), Joseph W. LeMaster (Author), Kevin Sykes (Author), Daniel J. Parente (Author), Erin Corriveau (Author), Antonio Miras Neira (Author), Angela Scott (Author), Kara E. Knapp (Author), Jennifer Woodward (Author), Sarah Finocchario-Kessler (Author), COPE Team (Author), Harshdeep Acharya (Author), Clarissa Carrillo (Author), Tatiana Darby (Author), Jody Hoener (Author), Allison Honn (Author), Nadine Long (Author), Mary Ricketts (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted rural and under-resourced urban communities in Kansas. The state's response to COVID-19 has relied on a highly decentralized and underfunded public health system, with 100 local health departments in the state, few of which had pri...