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

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2010

Publication Source

Family & Community Health

Abstract

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.

Inclusive pages

175–185

ISBN/ISSN

0160-6379

Comments

Permission documentation is on file.

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Volume

33

Issue

3

Peer Reviewed

yes


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