"The people know what they want": an empowerment process of sustainable, ecological community health.

Full Abstract

Community-focused nurses routinely confront issues of environmental hazards in the context of the community. Limits to disciplinary knowledge about health, environment, and community constrain practice for many who are interested in ways to promote community health across a spectrum of diverse needs and contexts, including the context of the environment. The purpose of the reported critical ethnography was to explore the relationships among health, environment, and culture from the cultural context of one community. Findings highlight the emancipatory, yet ambiguous, process through which this community transformed individual symptoms of illness into an experience and examination of community environment and community health. The significance of this work lies in inductively building knowledge and theory about these relationships and community empowerment for community-focused nursing.

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Author information

Author/s: Bent, Katherine N (KN);

Affiliation: VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, Colo 80220, USA. Katherine.bent(-atsign-)med.va.gov

Grants: 5F31NR007269-03 (Agency:United States NINR)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: ANS. Advances in nursing science (ANS Adv Nurs Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2003 Jul-Sep; vol 26 (issue 3) : pp 215-26

Dates: Created 2003/08/29; Completed 2003/10/03; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 12945656, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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