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. 2023 Oct 20;20(1):153.
doi: 10.1186/s12954-023-00885-9.

Evaluating a complex health promotion program to reduce hepatitis C among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in New South Wales, Australia: the Deadly Liver Mob

Carla Treloar  1 , Kim Beadman  2 , Mitch Beadman  2 , Kerri-Anne Smith  3 , Jade Christian  4 , Aunty Clair Jackson  2 , Beverley Tyson  5 , Clayton Anderson  5 , Larissa Smyth  6 , Melinda Walker  2 , Jennifer Heslop  7 , Gary Gahan  8 , Victor Tawil  9 , Felicity Sheaves  4 , Louise Maher  4 , Julie Page  4 , Donna Tilley  10 , Ann Ryan  11 , Kim Grant  11 , Basil Donovan  12 , Annabelle Stevens  9 , Trevor Slattery  11 , Kate Pearce  3 , Franklin John-Leader  7 , Andrew Walden  13 , Jo Lenton  14 , Margaret Crowley  5 , Elena Cama  2
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Evaluating a complex health promotion program to reduce hepatitis C among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in New South Wales, Australia: the Deadly Liver Mob

Carla Treloar et al. Harm Reduct J. .

Abstract

The Deadly Liver Mob (DLM) is a peer-delivered incentivised health promotion program by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and was introduced in response to the disproportionate number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who are impacted by blood borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The goal of the program is to increase access to BBV and STI education, screening, treatment, and vaccination in recognition and response to the systemic barriers that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples face in accessing health care. This commentary introduces a series of papers that report on various aspects of the evaluation of the Deadly Liver Mob (DLM) program. In this paper, we explain what DLM is and how we constructed an evaluation framework for this complex health promotion intervention.

Keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; Blood borne viruses; Health promotion; Hepatitis C; Sexually transmissible infections.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that some authors of this paper have been involved in the development and implementation of the DLM program.

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Program logic for Deadly Liver Mob
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