The Healthy Cities process uses action research to empower communities to take action for health. Five concepts that link community empowerment and action research are: focus on community, citizen participation, information and problem solving, sharing of power, and quality of life. Two city examples from Healthy Cities Indiana, a pilot program of CITYNET Healthy Cities, provide illustrations of these concepts. The dynamics of community participation in action research and the successes and barriers to community participation are presented. Outcomes that empowered the community are suggested: the extent to which Healthy City projects are initiated, their progress monitored, continued action in health supported, resources obtained, and policies promoted that contribute equity in health.
Community participation is an important feature of community health promotion. One form is participatory action research. This article describes the process and outcomes of participatory action research conducted by a Healthy City in rural Indiana and public health nurse faculty. The community was integrally involved in the entire process, including framing of research questions, construction and distribution of survey tools, analysis of findings, and taking action on the results. Combining local insights of the community with technical assistance from public health nursing yielded multiple benefits. The role of participatory action research is appropriate for public health nurses because it is consistent with the goals and characteristics of the profession.
This article describes a community-academic partnership that led to the development of a nurse-managed clinic (NMC) in 1996 in a rural Indiana area designated by the state as a medically underserved area (MUA) and a health professional shortage area (HPSA). Application of the community development model in faculty practice is described in relation to the clinic. The project is ongoing; lessons learned to date, which have implications for others involved in faculty practice, are described.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. National Council on Family Relations is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Marriage and Family.In her now classic study, Komarovsky (1964) reports that husbands are characterized by their wives as not talking enough. Either they don't talk enough in general; or don't share their "worries" often enough. At the same time, husbands are frequently accused of not listening often or well enough for their wives to feel understood. Thus, husbands are viewed by wives as being deficient, both as senders of personal information and as receivers of or responders to personal information. While husbands more often accuse their wives of talking about uninteresting things, in general, wives emerge as "by far the more dissatisfied sex and what they want is more interaction" (Komarovsky, 1964: 198). Except for "worries," we are left uncertain as to what kind of interaction women want more (or less) of. The literature to date has not clarified husband and wife preferences regarding the quality of interaction. Actual verbal behavior between spouses might be at variance with reported perceptions, but the literature is mute on this point. Moreover, samples on which assertions about husband-wife communication are made leave a good deal to be desired in terms of their representativeness and social class range.Given these and other considerations, we felt it valuable to undertake a re-inquiry into the crucial area of the quality and quantity of marital interaction, preferred, perceived, and experimentally observed. We were primarily interested in qualities of verbal interaction which enhance or retard the sharing of emotional closeness and revelation of private thoughts, values, concerns, etc. since this seems to be the sine qua non of modern marriage. Hence, the methods employed were designed to focus on these verbal phenomena specifically. Our efforts in this direction led us to adopt an explicit model of emotional communication behavior in order to increase comparability of information across methods and to make possible more general statements regarding the quality of marital interaction. A structured interview1 was utilized to facilitate data collection with the large, representative sample at which we were aiming and to save time for collection of behavior samples. 'Komarovsky (1964:196-197) objects to direct questioning, claiming that it produces cliche responses. A perusal of her questions reveals their ad hoc quality which may have produced less than useful clich6 responses. The absence of a guiding model of communication behavior in Komarovsky's work may be the real culprit, rather than any inherent fallability in the use of direct questioning on the...
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