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We invite you to attend the next seminar in The Wellesley Urban Health Seminar Series in Toronto.

CAN COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF CANADIANS?
POSSIBILITIES AND PITFALLS IN COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Presented by: Dennis Raphael, PhD

This complementary presentation, co-sponsored by Ryerson University,is open to all interested in partnership approaches to health.
Friday, March 26th, 2004, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. (light refreshments at 8:30) Kerr Hall West, Room 57 Ryerson University
(enter at 40 Gould St.)

Community-based research provides many opportunities for identifying and acting upon the primary determinants of individual and community health. Community-based research allows the voices of citizens to be heard concerning the factors that  influence their health, provides opportunities for community action to promote health, and helps shift power to community members from research professionals whose interests may not be consistent with the community.

However, community-based research has the potential to shift responsibility for health away from policy-makers whose decisions threaten health, and lay it on the community. This presentation reviews recent conceptualizations of the possibilities and benefits of community-based research as well as some of
its dangers.  It outlines the importance of assuring that influencing public policy is always a component of community-based research.

Dennis Raphael, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.  He is known for his quality of life studies of communities in Toronto.  He is a strong critic of government policy-making that threatens community health and is also critical of health promotion approaches that lay the blame for individual and community problems on the doorsteps of those most threatened by poor public policy-making.

Dennis is the author of the Toronto Charter for a Healthy Canada that
identified the societal barriers to health among Canadians and is the editor of the forthcoming volume (July, 2004) “Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives” to be published by Canadian Scholars Press.

Space is limited – register on-line at http://www.wellesleycentral.com/wellesley/content.asp?articleixd=120
Leisa -  416.972.1010

Wellesley Central Health Corporation is one of Canada’s leading
organizations in the promotion of urban health and the need for
community-academic partnerships.

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