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CBPR articles in American Journal of Public Health

New American Journal of Public Health “First Look” articles have been made available (for the period 28 Oct 2011 to 17 Nov 2011)

Ethical Justification for Conducting Public Health Surveillance Without
Patient Consent
Lisa M Lee, Charles M Heilig, and Angela White
Am J Public Health published 17 November 2011, 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300297
http://bit.ly/vyRJOR

Using Art to Amplify Youth Voices on Housing Insecurity
Carolyn [...]

Nominations for US Healthy Living Innovation Awards

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is announcing the 2011 Healthy Living Innovation Awards.  This is a new initiative at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that seeks to identify and acknowledge innovative health promotion projects within the last 3 years that have demonstrated a significant impact on [...]

Evaluating Policy and Environmental Change Initiatives

Increasingly, CBPR partnerships are looking for practical tools for evaluating policy and environmental change initiatives.  The Northwest Health Foundation’s recently released Community Changes Guidebook is intended to help fill the gap!  The guidebook was originally produced to improve program evaluation for the six grantees participating in the Foundation’s Alliance for the [...]

Communtiy

In the opening lines of his volume ‘Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World’, Bauman (2001) says: Words have meanings: some words, however, also have a ‘feel’. The word ‘community’ is one of them. It feels good: whatever the word ‘community’ may mean, it is good ‘to have a community’, ‘to be in a community’ . [...]