Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here...
1: Am J Public Health. 2005 Apr;95(4):611-6.Click here to read Click here to read Links

The community action model: a community-driven model designed to address disparities in health.

Hennessey Lavery S, Smith ML, Esparza AA, Hrushow A, Moore M, Reed DF.

San Francisco Department of Public Health, 30 Van Ness, #2300, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. susana.hennessey-lavery@sfdph.org

The community action model is a 5-step, community-driven model designed to build communities' capacity to address health disparities through mobilization. Fundamental to the model is a critical analysis identifying the underlying social, economic, and environmental forces that create health and social inequities in a community. The goal is to provide communities with the framework necessary to acquire the skills and resources to plan, implement, and evaluate health-related actions and policies. The model was developed in the context of tobacco-related health disparities. Concrete policy outcomes demonstrate the model's potential application to a wide variety of grassroots policy development efforts.

PMID: 15798117 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1449228