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

OBJECTIVE: Patient empowerment and health literacy have both been studied empirically,
but they have hardly ever been explicitly linked. METHODS: Pertinent literature from the …

The Delphi method is a pragmatic research method created in the 1950s by researchers at
the RAND Corporation for use in policy making, organizational decision making, and to …

The concept of empowerment represents a change from a deficit centred perspective on
recipients of social work. The practice of empowerment aims at strengthening the skills of …

RESEARCHERS HAVE SOUGHT to address the disproportionate and growing burden of
morbidity and mortality in recent decades in low social and economic resource communities …

Issues in nutrition education: an introduction--Food choice and dietary change: implications
for nutrition education--Overview of nutrition education: facilitating why-to and how-to take …

Attention to the sustainability of health intervention programs both in the US and abroad is
increasing, but little consensus exists on the conceptual and operational definitions of …

Increased emphasis on community collaboration indicates the need for consensus
regarding the definition of community within public health. This study examined whether …

Psychological empowerment has been theorized as a construct with emotional, behavioral
and cognitive components. Yet, many studies have stressed that empowerment processes …

Although community capacity is a central concern of community development experts, the
concept requires clarification. Because of the potential importance of community capacity to …