OBJECTIVES We describe an innovative community-centered participatory design approach, Consumer-centered Participatory Design (C2PD), and the results of applying C2PD to design and develop a web-based fall prevention system. METHODS We conducted focus groups and design sessions with English- and Spanish-speaking community-dwelling older adults. Focus group data were summarized and used to inf...

This paper describes WeDD (Web Site Design Day), a project which brought university staff, parent helpers and school children together to design a school web site. The design process, which was modelled on participatory design, is described with reference to other work that has used a similar approach. The methods that were used to evaluate the process are described, and some general conclusion...

INTRODUCTION Community based participatory program is an approach that emphasize on community empowerment as an important tool in health promotion especially in low and middle income countries. This article presents findings from a study of assessing performed participatory community based health programs in the Islamic Republic of Iran. METHODS This study was a qualitative study using focus ...

This article offers a framework for evaluating geographic information technology applied in the context of participatory problem solving and decision-making. The framework consists of constructs and detailed aspects describing significant issues of participatory decision-making. Constructs reflect the structure, while aspects address the content of participatory decisionmaking. Aspects are tied...

The Participatory design movement in the United States is, in many ways, growing out of the Scandinavian or worker-oriented design approach in Europe. This article discusses some of the roots of this movement and goes on to focus on ways that a ‘home grown’, or typically American brand of pragmatic system design can develop in the US. The road toward participatory design in the United States ha...

BACKGROUND This study aims to promote occupational health in the informal sector in Thailand by using a participatory approach. The success of the intervention is based on an evaluation of the informal sector workers, a) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in occupational health and safety, b) work practice improvement, and c) working condition improvement. METHODS This study applies the Part...

BACKGROUND Challenges to recruitment of Latinos in health research may include language, cultural and communication barriers, trust issues, heterogeneity of legal status, and a high percent of uninsured when compared to the US population. This paper highlights the community-based participatory research (CBPR) process and expands on the applicability of these principles to Latino communities. ...

Socioeconomic and racial disparities in the outcomes of medical management remain common across pulmonary diseases in the United States and worldwide. Acknowledging this, the American Thoracic Society recently put forth recommendations to advance respiratory health equity. Through engagement of vulnerable communities in search of collaborative solutions to improve health disparities, community-...

BACKGROUND An evaluation of progress with participatory approaches for improvement of health knowledge and health experiences of disadvantaged people in eight Districts of Eastern Nepal has been undertaken. METHODS A random selection of Village Development Committees and households, within the eight Districts where participation and a Rights-based Approach had been promoted specifically by lo...

The budget is the key means for effecting policy in democracies, yet its preparation is typically an opaque and arcane process. Participatory budgeting is making inroads in municipalities, but is usually limited to a small fraction of the total budget as its methods do not scale: They cannot handle quantitative budget items nor hierarchical budget construction. Here we apply the Condorcet princ...