Assessment/evaluation. Using participatory action research to build healthy communities

What is participatory research?

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Conducting a Participatory Community-Based Survey for a Community Health Intervention on Detroitʼs East Side

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Generating Evidence by the Use of Action Research and Participatory Action Research Approaches

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Generating Evidence by the Use of Action Research and Participatory Action Research Approaches

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The role of error culture in math classroom learning

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Frozen in time : accelerating trauma healing in protection of civilian (POC) sites in South Sudan

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Understanding the Influence of Urban Form on the Physical Activity in the Open Spaces Using Photovoice Method

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Luces y sombras en la implementación de la acción comunitaria para la salud

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Exploring the Mental Health Benefits of Physical Activity for Immigrant, Refugee, and Undocumented Women: Through an Intergenerational Lens

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A Community-Based Approach to Improving the Quality of Life of Child-Headed Households

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How to Make a Country Care – Performance Measurement Frameworks as Drivers of Care Policy Change

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Improving the Competitiveness of Screen Printing Entrepreneurs Through Generative AI-Based Illustration Design Training

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Reducing decisional conflict in COVID-19 vaccination in ethnocultural communities through sensemaking: a participatory action mixed-methods study

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Selling the menopausal body: A critical analysis of physician targeted HRT advertising -AND- Community-university co-operative model case study: A reflexive and exploratory look at one CBR experience

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Additional file 1 of Development of the Conversational Health Literacy Assessment Tool for maternity care (CHAT-maternity-care): participatory action research

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Additional file 2 of Identifying priorities, directions and a vision for Indigenous mental health using a collaborative and consensus-based facilitation approach

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Additional file 1 of Identifying priorities, directions and a vision for Indigenous mental health using a collaborative and consensus-based facilitation approach

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Culturally and trauma-informed music therapy: approaches for school settings illustrated through descriptive cases from Norway, the United States and South Africa

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The Learning Cycle method: an approach to rapidly bring evidence to the point of decision-making for health system planning

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Relational Co-design as Participatory Governance in Post-Disaster Recovery: A Practice FrameworkPreprint

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Implementing and evaluating culturally relevant dance opportunities for people living with dementia in historically excluded and racialised communities: a qualitative case study protocol

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Using Methods that Matter: A Critical Examination of Photovoice for Studying Supportive Housing

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Community based needs assessment in an urban area; A participatory action research project

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Using Participatory Action Research to Address Community Health Issues

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Participatory action research in rural and vulnerable settings for community health: a systematic literature review

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Academic Researchers’ Roles in Participatory Action Research, Theory Development and the Improvement of Community-based Health Projects

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Applying a Practical, Participatory Action Research Framework for Producing Knowledge, Action and Change in Communities: A Health Case Study from Gujarat, Western India

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