Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and community engaged research (CEnR) are key to promoting community and patient engagement in actionable evidence-based strategies to improve research for health equity. Rapid growth of CBPR/CEnR research projects have led to the broad adoption of partnering principles in community-academic partnerships and among some health and academic organizations. Yet, transformation of principles into best practices that foster trust, shared power, and equity outcomes still remain fragmented, are dependent on individuals with long term projects, or are non-existent. (...) This paper describes how we designed our Engage for Equity PLUS intervention that leverages the leadership and membership of champion teams (including community-engaged faculty, community partners and patient advocates) to improve organizational policies and practices to support equity based CBPR/CEnR. (shrink)

Gas leakages results a serious problem in household and other areas where household gas is used, therefore the proposed gas leakage detection and monitoring system is developed. There are many methods available for booking a Gas Refill, methods include online booking, telephonic booking etc. It will be difficult situation for the one who uses LPG gas for cooking regularly. The aim of this paper is to present a new system automatically books a cylinder when the gas is about to empty (...) is by sending a notification to the gas agency using wifi using Internet of Things approach. In addition to that sensor is used to detect gas leakage at home. If the gas leakage is sensed automatically it will send SMS to the user. wifi is one of the most used networks across the world. Hence, load cell has been used to monitor the weight of the LPG gas regularly. The values are next fed to the microcontroller. If the gas in the cylinder indicates a value where the remaining percentage level is crossed below the threshold levelset for gas to be indicated as getting emptied, then a notification will be delivered to gas enterprise automatically to book the new cylinder. Subsequently, reply notification will be sent to the customer about the booking status. At the same time, application software is developed in the gas enterprise to inform and record the booking. This, work this helps the society to specifically indicate gas leakage and also helps both customers and the agency to get the gas booking made automatically using the IOT technique. (shrink)