Letters Community participation in health care Editor – I agree, but only in part, with the views expressed in the editorial " Community participation in health impact assessment: intuitively appealing but practically difficult " (1). The authors have considered many important issues relating to community participation, such as democratic processes, community empowerment, and top-down professio...

Existing research divides online community participants into two separate groups: posters, who publicly participate in the community’s activities, and lurkers, who read but do not post or respond to ongoing conversations. The current study expands the concept of participation patterns in online communities from the standard binary distinction to a broader perspective of participation behaviors....

background: assessment of national children growth has shown that a high percent of country's children are afflicted to growth failure. community participation is one of the principles of phc emphasized by who that is necessary for develop­ment of health services. the objective of this study was to develop a model for mother's participation in order to improving growth and nutrition of children...