March 26th, 2004, Dennis Raphael, PhD, School of Health Policy and
Management, York University

Featured speaker to an audience of 100 at 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"

Co-sponsored by Ryerson University, Faculty of Community Services

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 workshop 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 of health policy and
management at York University. He is known for his community quality of life studies of communities in Toronto.  But he is also a strong critic of government policy-making that threaten community health and 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.

The full presentation is available on-line at:

http://www.wellesleycentral.com/wellesley/content.asp?articleixd=125



Robb Travers
Director,
Resource Centre for Community-Based Research
Wellesley Central Health Corporation
471 Jarvis St. Suite 201
Toronto, ON, M4Y 2G8
phone: 416 972 1010 x25
mobile: 416 545 7498
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