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

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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