Inclusive public participation in health: policy, practice and theoretical contributions to promote the involvement of marginalised groups in healthcare

Migrants and ethnic minorities are under-represented in spaces created to give citizens voice in healthcare governance. Excluding minority groups from the health participatory sphere may weaken the transformative potential of public participation, (re)producing health inequities. Yet few studies have focused on what enables involvement of marginalised groups in participatory spaces. This paper addresses this issue, using the Participation Chain Model (PCM) as a conceptual framework, and drawing on a case study of user involvement in a Dutch mental health advocacy project involving Cape Verdean... Mehr ...