Published In

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2025

Subjects

Participatory Research, Equity

Abstract

Coproduction is not a new idea in implementation research, health research, or research in general. There is substantial scholarship that establishes its importance and provides guidance and examples for adoption. Given this, why do editorials like Rycroft-Malone et al’s recent paper, "Research Coproduction: An Underused Pathway to Impact," continue to be published, and also, necessary? In this commentary, we discuss the importance of equity - not equality - as the underlying paradigm of coproduction research. We argue that it is the incomplete understanding and adoption of this equity paradigm by researchers and their institutions that inhibit coproduction from being fully realized and thus, impactful. We offer examples of what such a paradigm shift might look like, including futures thinking that yields difficult questions that must be addressed to dismantle systemic barriers to power redistribution.

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© 2025 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.8875

DOI

10.34172/ijhpm.8875

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43493

Publisher

Maad Rayan Publishing Company

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