Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-8-2025
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Allied Health Studies
First Advisor
Laura Martin
Second Advisor
Timothy Yenter
Third Advisor
Noa Valcarcel Ares
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
Community engagement seeks to achieve long-term outcomes through collaborating with community and campus partners to address the issues affecting the community by centering their voices, concerns, and solutions. This capstone project seeks to offer health and language access for residents in Lafayette, Pontotoc, and Union Counties, and to evaluate the health fair model from the perspective of participating community and campus partners. With this information from organizations, it will be possible to create the most efficient, beneficial health fairs in these counties. The community partner perspectives show the importance of community engagement, but also the significance for the campus as well. This capstone project considers how projects such as the health fair can evolve from a transactional to a transformative model (Enos & Morton, 2003), and offers a logic model as a basis for replication. This paper also considers how the social determinants of health play into community-campus partnerships and how to structure the most effective approach to health promotion.
Recommended Citation
Brumfield, Brookleigh, "Health Fairs: An Effective Approach to Health Promotion through Community Engagement and Community-Campus Partnerships" (2025). Honors Theses. 3391.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3391