(2012). Exploring " home " at an assisted living facility: Looking through residents' lenses with Photovoice.

Engaging and empowering youth to promote health could be important in promoting sustainable positive behaviors. Photovoice is a community-based participatory research tool giving priority populations opportunities for active community engagement and advocacy through photography. Our project objective was to better understand youth perceptions related to food justice within their own community a...

In the past few decades, photovoice research has gained prominence, providing context rich insights through participants' photographs and narratives. Emergent within the field of photovoice research have been health studies embracing diverse illness issues. The goal of this scoping review article was to describe the use of photovoice in mental illness, paying particular attention to the followi...

INTRODUCTION Diabetes self-management takes place within a complex social and environmental context.  This study's objective was to examine the perceived and actual presence of community assets that may aid in diabetes control. METHODS We conducted one 6-hour photovoice session with 11 adults with poorly controlled diabetes in Boston, Massachusetts.  Participants were recruited from census tr...

A photo voice or photo novella is a collection of photographs and captions that tells a social story. Each photovoice project is different, and each project has a different focus. With photovoice projects, stories are told, different original photographs are captured and different outcomes are sought. Your photovoice project topic: The topic of your project is Disease/Addiction in my Community....

I was pleasantly surprised to be sent this particular book to review. I was not overly familiar with the concept of photovoice – it is much better known and utilised in the USA and other parts of the world than the UK although the charity ‘PhotoVoice’ has had a presence in London since 1998. They recently (2014) launched a new website, membership scheme and brand identity – see http://www.photo...

Photovoice was used as a participatory research method to document perceived local environmental hazards, pollution sources, and potential impact on health among community members to address environmental health disparities. A convenience sample of 16 adults in Orangeburg, South Carolina participated in Photovoice. Photos depicted positive and negative implications of the environment across sev...

This article provides an example of a culturally responsive, community-based project for addressing social determinants of health in rural American Indian (AI) communities through: 1) empowering youth and community voices to set directions for HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy prevention and education efforts; 2) using Photovoice to promote healthy relationships amo...

The successful development and implementation of prevention curricula requires seeking strategies that combine the strengths of researchers and community members. Because young people are considered to be the experts in their own lives, it is important to determine effective ways to engage them in substance abuse assessment and prevention initiatives. The community-based participatory action re...