Photovoice: Giving Local Health Departments New Perspectives on Community Health Issues

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This article describes how local health departments can use Photovoice to complement quantitative data, gain a community perspective on health concerns, and promote community education and health advocacy. Photovoice is a photography and storytelling technique that offers community residents an opportunity to share their perceptions and impressions of their community and of the local conditions that affect their community’s health. Examples demonstrate how one local health department in California has used Photovoice and identify lessons that have been learned over the past several years.

Tags: how-to, photography, public health
Topics: Building Community, Community Media, Journalism, Media production, Storytelling, Training

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© 2007, Contra Costa Health Services .

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