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Reflections from the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inequalities and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in Social Care, Health and Public Health Research

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Journal Health Expect
Publisher Wiley
Specialty Public Health
Date 2021 Aug 9
PMID 34369628
Citations 12
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Abstract

Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) has evolved to become widely established practice in social care, health and public health research in the UK. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused rapid change in practice in PPIE, notably in moving from face-to-face meetings to virtual ones. This has opened a space for reflecting on established PPIE practice, but there is a risk this is conducted too narrowly, such as only weighing our preferences and the relative pros and cons with regard to in-person versus virtual meetings. The pandemic has also demonstrated the wide inequalities in society, and hence, we argue that an inequalities lens ought to guide a deeper and wider reflection on PPIE practice. We do not seek to criticize practice pre- or during the pandemic, but to encourage using the inequalities lens as a means of encouraging debate and focusing energy on a more rigorous review of PPIE practice to widen involvement in social care, health and public health research.

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Clark M, Van Vliet E, Collins M . Reflections from the COVID-19 pandemic on inequalities and patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in social care, health and public health research. Health Expect. 2021; 24(5):1547-1550. PMC: 8444682. DOI: 10.1111/hex.13278. View