title: Participatory health research: celebrating smoke-free homes.
abstract: For community engagement to be successful, the interests of the community must be taken into account and researchers must become facilitators. Patience is required. Meaningful and sustainable relationships that have been developed over time promote mutual learning and capacity building among the partners (Elders, community members, health care providers, and researchers). In addition, community engagement leads to the sharing of available resources (eg, human, time, and financial) and to a sustained commitment by the partners. This mutual commitment makes future projects easier to develop and complete. Thus, authentic transformative health development, informed by participatory health research, becomes an ongoing process.
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authors.lastname: Ramsden
authors.forename: Shari
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authors.lastname: McKay
authors.forename: Shirley
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authors.lastname: Bighead
authors.forename: Gail
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mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012525:Saskatchewan; D000074606:Smoking Prevention
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