The RADx-UP CDCC Building Community Capacity and Impact (BCCI) Working Group collaborated with the CDCC Group Model Building team to create a visual representation of what helps, or hurts, equitable COVID-19 testing. In this resource, you will see a table with visual diagrams and written explanations of the working group's insights into community processes that impact COVID-19 testing.
A causal loop diagram visually represents how different elements of a system or intervention are connected, paying specific attention to how different elements interact or cause one another to change. Rather than just showing one large diagram with all the insights from BCCI about what matters to increase equitable COVID-19 Testing, we have a table that:
- shows a few elements at a time, in structures we call loops
- describes why these loops matter with written explanations and quotes from working group discussions
The BCCI Working Group was specifically interested in how misinformation and missing information impact equitable testing. For a walk-through of how to read each loop, check out our video library.