An exploration of citizen science for population health research in retail food environments

Public engagement is an essential component of public health research, practice, knowledge exchange processes, and decision making. Citizen science was first documented in the early 1900s as an approach to public engagement and there is growing interest in how it can be used in health research. This...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Public Health
Main Authors: Pomeroy, Stephanie J., Minaker, Leia M., Mah, Catherine L.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2017
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Commentary
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6972148/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29356676
https://doi.org/10.17269/CJPH.108.6099
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Summary:Public engagement is an essential component of public health research, practice, knowledge exchange processes, and decision making. Citizen science was first documented in the early 1900s as an approach to public engagement and there is growing interest in how it can be used in health research. This commentary describes how citizen science approaches were incorporated into a public engagement activity as part of a population health intervention research project on the retail food environment, a workshop we hosted called The Food In This Place in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. We used citizen science methods and approaches to train and support participants to critically analyze a sample of everyday local retail food environments.

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