title: The community action model: a community-driven model designed to address disparities in health.
abstract: The community action model is a 5-step, community-driven model designed to build communities' capacity to address health disparities through mobilization. Fundamental to the model is a critical analysis identifying the underlying social, economic, and environmental forces that create health and social inequities in a community. The goal is to provide communities with the framework necessary to acquire the skills and resources to plan, implement, and evaluate health-related actions and policies. The model was developed in the context of tobacco-related health disparities. Concrete policy outcomes demonstrate the model's potential application to a wide variety of grassroots policy development efforts.
authors.affiliation: San Francisco Department of Public Health, 30 Van Ness, #2300, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. susana.hennessey-lavery@sfdph.org
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hennessey Lavery
authors.forename: Mele Lau
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Alma Avila
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Esparza
authors.forename: Alyonik
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hrushow
authors.forename: Melinda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Diane F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Reed
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000379:methods*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D012923:Social Class