Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health: Using a Community Health Development Approach to Increase Community Capacity around Reduction of Environmental Triggers

Edith A Parker; Lynna K Chung; Barbara A Israel; Angela Reyes; Donele Wilkins

doi:10.1007/s10935-010-0207-7

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Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health: Using a Community Health Development Approach to Increase Community Capacity around Reduction of Environmental Triggers

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Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health: Using a Community Health Development Approach to Increase Community Capacity around Reduction of Environmental Triggers

Edith A Parker, Lynna K Chung, Barbara A Israel, Angela Reyes and Donele Wilkins

The Journal of primary prevention, Vol.31(1-2), pp.41-58

04/2010

DOI: 10.1007/s10935-010-0207-7

PMCID: PMC2891016

PMID: 20306137

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Abstract

The Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health (CONEH), a project of Community Action Against Asthma, used a community health development approach to improve children’s asthma-related health through increasing the community’s capacity to reduce physical and social environmental triggers for asthma. Three community organizers were hired to work with community groups and residents in neighborhoods in Detroit on the priority areas of air quality, housing, and citizen involvement in the environmental project and policy decision-making. As part of the evaluation of the CONEH project, 20 one-on-one semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted between August and November 2005 involving steering committee members, staff members, and key community organization staff and/or community members. Using data from the evaluation of the CONEH project, this article identifies the dimensions of community capacity that were enhanced as part of a CBPR community health development approach to reducing physical and social environmental triggers associated with childhood asthma and the factors that facilitated or inhibited the enhancement of community capacity.

Environmental Health

Asthma

Community-based participatory research

Community health development

Community capacity

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Title: Subtitle: Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health: Using a Community Health Development Approach to Increase Community Capacity around Reduction of Environmental Triggers
Creators: Edith A Parker - Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA
Lynna K Chung - Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA
Barbara A Israel - Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA
Angela Reyes - Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, Detroit, MI, USA
Donele Wilkins - Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, Detroit, MI, USA
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: The Journal of primary prevention, Vol.31(1-2), pp.41-58
DOI: 10.1007/s10935-010-0207-7
PMID: 20306137
PMCID: PMC2891016
NLM abbreviation: J Prim Prev
ISSN: 0278-095X
eISSN: 1573-6547
Language: English
Date published: 04/2010
Academic Unit: Public Health Administration; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
Record Identifier: 9984063114502771

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