Community Connectors and Health
This framework illustrates how health and community care professionals can tap into the boundary spanning activities of ‘community connectors’ to improve access to health and community services.
Further reading
Wallace, C., Farmer, J., & McCosker, A. (2018) Community boundary spanners as an addition to the health workforce to reach marginalised people: A scoping review of the literature, BMC Human Resources for Health, 16:46.
Wallace, C., Farmer, J., & McCosker, A. (2019) Boundary spanning practices of community connectors for engaging ‘hardly reached’ people in health services, Social Science and Medicine, Vol 232, pages 366-373.
Wallace, C., Farmer, J., White, C., & McCosker, A. (2020) Collaboration with community connectors to improve primary care access for hardly reached people: a case comparison of rural Ireland and Australia, BMC Health Services Research, 20:172.
Wallace, C., McCosker, A., Farmer, J. & White, C. (2021) Spanning communication boundaries to address health inequalities: the role of community connectors and social media, Journal of Applied Communication Research, DOI:10.1080/00909882.2021.1934513
Access my thesis here: Boundary Spanning for Health: a framework and model to improve access to health services in high income countries (2020)
Further resources
This diagram represents the role of connectors in connecting the community system with the service system.
This represents the model for collaborating with community connectors.
This is a two page summary of the Community Connector Framework and Model