The pursuit of health equity and social justice lie at the heart of community-empowered health promotion practice. However, there is a need to address the colonial legacy and its contributions to health inequities. The process of decolonization is essential to eliminating the mechanisms that contributed to such inequities. To this end, we propose an Applied Decolonial Framework for Health Promotion that integrates decolonial processes into health promotion practice. We present characteristics of the framework, its values for health promotion transformations and considerations for using the framework in health promotion practice. The framework will help health promotion stakeholders attend to colonizing structures within the field and engage with communities to achieve social justice and health equity.
Highlights • Synergy-accomplishing more together than alone-is central to effective collaborative partnerships. • Measures of synergy specific to long-standing equity-focused CBPR partnerships are lacking. • We developed a 7-item measure integrating knowledge from community-academic CBPR and equity experts. • Evaluating synergy can strengthen CBPR partnership effectiveness to address health inequities. • Fostering synergy will enhance CBPR partnership success to promote community health and equity.
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