Capacity Building for Health Through Community-Based Participatory Nutrition Intervention Research in Rural Communities

Autor: Diana Cuy Castellanos, Elaine T. Prewitt, Earline Strickland, Kathleen Yadrick, Laura H. Downey, Betty M. Kennedy, Paula Threadgill, Margaret L. Bogle
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Family & Community Health. 33:175-185
ISSN: 0160-6379
DOI: 10.1097/fch.0b013e3181e4bb58
Popis: Since its inception, capacity building has been a stated goal of the Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative, a tri-state collaboration in the Lower Mississippi Delta to address high rates of chronic disease. Textual analysis of project documents identifies and describes strategies carried out to foster capacity building. Strategies to build community capacity include fostering participation, cultivating leadership opportunities, training community members as co-researchers, securing community resources, and implementing the intervention together. Incorporating capacity-building approaches in health promotion and nutrition-intervention programming in rural communities provides a means to enhance potential for sustainability of health outcomes and developed effectiveness.
Databáze: OpenAIRE