Mission
Cairde is a community development organisation working to tackle health inequalities among ethnic minority communities by improving ethnic minority access to health services, and ethnic minority participation in health planning and delivery.
Objective
Cairde aims over the next three to four years to implement actions which will be seen to have a measurable impact on the delivery of primary health care to a selected number of disadvantaged ethnic minority communities in Dublin.
Target Populations
Cairde works with disadvantaged ethnic minority communities from the continent of Africa; Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
Action Areas
Improving Access – Health Information and Advocacy
Objective: To provide relevant, accurate and culturally appropriate health information to the target population to enable them to access and use primary care services.
- To improve ethnic minority take up and experience of primary care through the provision of high quality, relevant and culturally appropriate health information;
- To improve ethnic minority take up and experience of primary care services through community based health promotion;
- To improve ethnic minority take up and experience of primary
Improving Delivery – Participation
Objective: To build and support ethnic minority participation in the planning and delivery of primary care.
- To build participation of ethnic minority communities in the planning, delivery and monitoring of local health service provision;
- To initiate partnership models which build broader community/statutory support for ethnic minority participation;
- To promote statutory/ethnic minority interaction; engagement; and co-decision making on health service planning and delivery.
Influencing Planning – Research & Policy
Objective: To influence the development of primary care through relevant research, data, policy submissions and participation on key structures.
- To highlight ethnic minority experiences and outcomes from their use of primary care services;
- To highlight barriers to primary care and model approaches to address these barriers;
- To participate in the planning; implementation and monitoring of Government health strategies which impact on the delivery of primary health care to ethnic minority communities.
