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Building healthy populations one community at a time

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Tailored community engagement led or co-led by the community can build trust with underserved communities to deliver health equity.

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Fig. 1: The health equity mountain.

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  1. Community Outreach and Engagement Office & Programs, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Folakemi T. Odedina

  2. Federal University of Pernambuco, Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Rafaela Alves Pacheco

  3. SUS Family Health Strategy, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Rafaela Alves Pacheco

  4. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Marcia C. Castro

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Odedina, F.T., Pacheco, R.A. & Castro, M.C. Building healthy populations one community at a time. Nat Med 29, 1601–1604 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02422-4

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