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Introduction: Community health workers (CHWs) help bridge the cultural gap between health services and the communities they serve. CHWs work with physicians, nurses and social workers, but little is known about their collaboration with pharmacists. This scoping review aims to describe the interprofessional collaboration between CHWs and pharmacists, the types of interventions they deliver and CHWs' and pharmacists' specific roles within these interventions.

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Translation of oral health research priorities into research topics in an equity-based priority setting exercise.

Health Res Policy Syst

January 2025

Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research, Peninsula Dental School, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.

Background: In the context of research priority-setting, participants express their research priorities and ideas in various forms, ranging from narratives to explicit topics or questions. However, the transition from these expressions to well-structured research topics or questions is not always straightforward. Challenges intensify when research priorities pertain to interventions or diagnostic accuracy, requiring the conversion of narratives into the Participant, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome (PICO) format.

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Background: Perceived discrimination and medical mistrust are barriers to care that impact both individual and population health.

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