Journal article
Promoting Policy Development through Community Participatory Approaches to Health Promotion: The Philadelphia Ujima Experience
Women's health issues, v 27 Suppl 1, pp S29-S37
17 Oct 2017
PMID: 29050656
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
The Philadelphia Ujima Coalition for a Healthier Community (Philadelphia Ujima) promotes health improvement of girls, women, and their families using a gender framework and community-based participatory research approach to addressing gender-based disparities. Institutional policies developed through community-based participatory research approaches are integral to sustaining gender-integrated health-promotion programs and necessary for reducing gender health inequities. This paper describes the results of a policy analysis of the Philadelphia Ujima coalition partner sites and highlights two case studies.
The policy analysis used a document review and key informant interview transcripts to explore 1) processes that community, faith, and academic organizations engaged in a community participatory process used to develop policies or institutional changes, 2) types of policy changes developed, and 3) initial outcomes and impact of the policy changes on the target population.
Fifteen policies were developed as a result of the funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. Policy changes included 1) healthy food options guidance, 2) leadership training on sexual and relationship violence, and 3) curricula and programming inclusion and expansion of a sex and gender focus in high school and medical school.
Organizational practice changes and policies can be activated through individual-level interventions using a community participatory approach. This approach empowers communities to play an integral role in creating health-promoting policies.
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- Title
- Promoting Policy Development through Community Participatory Approaches to Health Promotion: The Philadelphia Ujima Experience
- Creators
- Candace Robertson-James - La Salle UniversityLidyvez Sawyer - Drexel UniversityAna Núñez - Drexel UniversityBernadette Campoli - Mercy Career & Technical High School, Health & Physical Education Chair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Diana Robertson - Zion Baptist Church of Ardmore, Ardmore, Pennsylvania.Amanda DeVilliers - Nurse-Family PartnershipSharon Congleton - Calvary St. Augustine Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Stephen Hayes - United States Department of Health and Human ServicesStephanie Alexander - United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Publication Details
- Women's health issues, v 27 Suppl 1, pp S29-S37
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health; [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000415689200006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85032952065
- Other Identifier
- 991019168072104721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
- Women's Studies