Community interventions are complex social processes that need to move beyond single
interventions and outcomes at individual levels of short-term change. A scientific paradigm is …

Interventions The article Reconsidering Community-Based Health Promotion: Promise,
Performance, and Potential by Merzel and D'Afflitti1 in this issue of the Journal makes a …

Minkler and Wallerstein have pulled together a fantastic set of contributions from the leading
researchers in the field. In addition to a fine collection of case studies, this book puts the key …

Introduction. Although there is general agreement about the complex interplay among
individual-, family-, organizational-, and community-level factors as they influence health …

A major goal of community science is to improve the quality of life in our communities by
improving the quality of the practice of treatment, prevention, health promotion, and …

▪ Abstract Community-based research in public health focuses on social, structural, and
physical environmental inequities through active involvement of community members …

Proponents of community-based research advocate for the active involvement and
engagement of community members, citing improved construct validity, intervention efficacy …

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged in the last decades as a
transformative research paradigm that bridges the gap between science and practice …

In this commentary, we review definition frameworks for community health and examine
factors having core relevance to shaping the meaning of this term and growing field. We …

Meaningful improvements in health require modifying the social determinants of health. As
policies are often underlying causes of the living conditions that shape health, policy change …