# Evaluating representation
**URL:** https://community.weallcount.com/t/evaluating-representation/1335
**Category:** Problem Solving
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.weallcount.com/t/evaluating-representation/1335 "2023-02-03T23:07:16Z")
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### Author:  [@kstenhoff](https://community.weallcount.com/u/kstenhoff)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.weallcount.com/t/evaluating-representation/1335/1 "2023-02-03T23:07:16Z")
I am developing an evaluation plan for state efforts to support and expand community health work in community and clinical settings. Recruiting for this workforce usually prioritizes lived experience, a social work heart, and community connections over formal education. I’d like to evaluate the extent to which this workforce is concordant/representative with the people/patients they serve across various factors of lived experience, community knowledge, and demographics. Does anyone have experience evaluating representation in a scenario akin to what I’ve described? I’d love to learn about your experience and would appreciate any suggestions, resources, and/or tips that might inform my approach. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Heather](https://community.weallcount.com/u/Heather)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.weallcount.com/t/evaluating-representation/1335/2 "2023-02-21T19:59:40Z")
Hey @kstenhoff I don’t know of any evaluations in a community health work setting. I think there is a body of examples in the clinical field.
This one might be a useful example for you as it’s focussed on racial concordance
> **[Matching Provider Race to Increase Take-up of Preventive Health Services...](https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/matching-provider-race-increase-take-preventive-health-services-among-black-men-united)**
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> Researchers examined the impact of race concordance (when the race of a patient matches that of their physician) and incentives on the take-up of preventive health services by black men.
There is also conversation around the relative value of matching around demographics and training to understand folks from other demographics which I think is quite interesting:
[https://journals.stfm.org/familymedicine/2022/october/lte-oct22-guillaume/](https://journals.stfm.org/familymedicine/2022/october/lte-oct22-guillaume/)