Community-Based Health Promotion
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2024) | Viewed by 360
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health disparities; immigrant health; youth risk behaviors; rural and community health promotion; community leadership development
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Interests: adolescents; risk behavior; health promotion, leisure; young adults; mental health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Health promotion and health equity require valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and health and healthcare disparities. There has been tremendous effort in elevating community engagement and community-based programs that involve collaboration and partnerships with communities and populations to address health and social conditions and problems. However, we know that when not properly planned and implemented, public health interventions may unfortunately worsen health disparities. Further, health disparities have persisted, driven mainly by social and economic inequities across the social determinants of health. To promote health more effectively, we need to expand knowledge on how to reduce health disparities/inequalities. Hence, this Special Issue calls for papers that conceptually and/or empirically advance our understanding of how to promote and enable control, influence, and participation from people in groups with less favorable social and economic positions and in different cultural contexts. Overall, we would welcome papers on community-level efforts aimed at increasing peoples’ capability and confidence to engage in collective actions for their wellbeing and health. With such a premise, recommended topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- Promoting sustainable community health in relation to Sustainable Development Goals;
- Strengthening community health and economic stability;
- Skills development to address health, wellbeing, and related issues;
- Creating supportive environments and contexts to promote health and wellbeing;
- Case studies on community-based, health promotion initiatives, and interventions across all age groups (children, adolescents, youth, adults, and older adults);
- Community-based initiatives that showcase the principles of enable, mediate, and advocate;
- Reorienting health services to promote health, address disparities, and achieve equity;
- Health promoting schools and tertiary education institutions;
- Community development to promote health and wellbeing;
- Rural health promotion initiatives;
- Health promotion in the context of human ecosystem disruptions such as pandemics, natural disasters, and socioeconomic crises;
- Interdisciplinary health promotion;
- Case studies on the influence of context and the environment on population health;
- Community, safety, and social context—social integration, community engagement, policing/justice policy, substance use;
- Healthcare systems: access to linguistically and culturally appropriate and respectful care; quality of care, provider and pharmacy availability, health coverage.
Dr. Wilson Majee
Dr. Lisa Wegner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- public health
- community engagement
- health promotion
- community development
- health disparities
- social determinants of health
- health equity
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