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- Title
Advancing Access to Healthcare through Telehealth: A Brownsville Community Assessment.
- Authors
Ely-Ledesma, Edna; Champagne-Langabeer, Tiffany
- Abstract
(1) Background: This paper focuses on the development of a community assessment for telehealth using an interprofessional lens, which sits at the intersection of public health and urban planning using multistakeholder input. The paper analyzes the process of designing and implementing a telemedicine plan for the City of Brownsville and its surrounding metros. (2) Methods: We employed an interprofessional approach to CBPR which assumed all stakeholders as equal partners alongside the researchers to uncover the most relevant and useful knowledge to inform the development of telehealth community assessment. (3) Results: Key findings include that: physicians do not have the technology, financial means, or staff to provide a comprehensive system for telemedicine; and due to language and literacy barriers, many patients are not able to use a web-based system of telemedicine. We also found that all stakeholders believe that telehealth is a convenient tool that has the capacity to increase patient access and care. (4) Conclusions: Ultimately, the use of an interprofessional community-based participatory research (CBPR) design allowed our team to bring together local knowledge with that of trained experts to advance the research efforts.
- Subjects
TEXAS; HEALTH services accessibility; FOCUS groups; HEALTH risk assessment; COMMUNICATION barriers; COMMUNITY health services; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; RESEARCH funding; NEEDS assessment; PHYSICIANS; THEMATIC analysis; TELEMEDICINE
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2022, Vol 10, Issue 12, p2509
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare10122509