Meaningfully engaging marginalized populations

Just came across this article: Heard and valued: the development of a model to meaningfully engage marginalized populations in health services. It presents an interesting model and set of principles for engaging patients from marginalized populations. I like the attention paid to readiness assessment. Engagement design should include helping ready participants so they can participate equitably, e.g. extra briefing for those who may be starting with a lower level of knowledge; increasing the comfort level with small group intros before the session, walk-through of the agenda before the session, etc. We used preparatory webinars in a dialogue we did last spring to develop a national dementia strategy. It made a real difference to those participants who were living with dementia.