title: GetHealthyHarlem.org: developing a web platform for health promotion and wellness driven by and for the Harlem community.
abstract: GetHealthyHarlem.org is a community website developed on an open-source platform to facilitate collaborative development of health content through participatory action research (PAR) principles. The website was developed to enable the Harlem community to create a shared health and wellness knowledgebase, to enable discourse about local and culturally relevant health information, and to foster social connections between community members and health promotion organizations. The site is gaining active use with more than 9,500 unique site visits in the six months since going live in November, 2008. In ongoing research studies, we are using the website to explore how the PAR model can be applied to the development of a community health website.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Sharib A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Jessica S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ancker
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: Carly
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hutchinson
authors.forename: Alwyn
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cohall
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukafka
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009519:New York City; D011634:Public Health