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Ethnic Minority Health in Ireland-Co-creating knowledge (EMH-IC): a participatory health research protocol.

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Introduction

International policy recommends continuous, cost-effective monitoring of health data to enable health services to identify and respond to health inequities as experienced by different ethnic groups. However, there is a lack of routinely collected ethnicity data, particularly in primary care, and very little implementation research internationally to understand how ethnic identifiers are introduced, embedded and used in healthcare settings. This paper describes a protocol for a novel participatory health research project with the objective of building the evidence base on ethnic minority health in Ireland. Findings on the participatory appraisal of ethnic identifiers as an intervention to generate useful data about minority and majority ethnic groups will have relevance in other settings and countries.

Methods and analysis

This multidisciplinary project is designed as a participatory health research study where all stakeholders, including ethnic minority communities, participate in co-design of the research protocol, project governance, collaborative data interpretation and disseminating findings. A national catalogue of all routinely collected health data repositories will be electronically searched for any repositories that contain information on ethnicity. A secondary quantitative analysis of a population-representative cohort study, Growing Up in Ireland, will be carried out to compare the health of ethnic minority and majority groups. A qualitative case study informed by normalisation process theory will be carried out at three primary care sites to monitor the implementation of an ethnic identifier and identify barriers and levers to implementation.

Ethics and dissemination

Ethical approval for the qualitative case study has been granted by the Irish Council for General Practitioners (06/09/17). Permission to access data from Growing Up in Ireland has been granted by the Director General of the Central Statistics Office. Dissemination will be carried out at community events and academic conferences, in peer-reviewed journal publications, and through academic and healthcare provider networks.

SUBMITTER: Hannigan A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6252715 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ethnic Minority Health in Ireland-Co-creating knowledge (EMH-IC): a participatory health research protocol.

Hannigan Ailish A Basogomba Alphonse A LeMaster Joseph J Nurse Diane D O'Reilly Fiona F Roura Maria M Villarroel Nazmy N MacFarlane Anne A

BMJ open 20181031 10

<h4>Introduction</h4>International policy recommends continuous, cost-effective monitoring of health data to enable health services to identify and respond to health inequities as experienced by different ethnic groups. However, there is a lack of routinely collected ethnicity data, particularly in primary care, and very little implementation research internationally to understand how ethnic identifiers are introduced, embedded and used in healthcare settings. This paper describes a protocol for ...[more]

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Introduction

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Ethics and dissemination

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